Suzanne's Sin

In pre-war France Suzanne dumps her childhood sweetheart, André, for her university professor. Abandoned by her new lover when she falls pregnant she has an abortion.

War comes and Suzanne joins the Resistance. André joins the enemy. He murders her father and sends her mother to a concentration camp. He is always one step behind Suzanne with murder on his twisted mind in revenge for being jilted.

Suzanne falls in love with fellow resistant Jules. He gives her a list of collaborators telling her to get the list to the Americans or British if something happens to him. He’s shot in an ambush.

Suzanne believes God is killing the people she loves because of her abortion. Her nights are full of nightmares.

She helps US Ranger Sergeant ‘Griz’Koslowski destroy a bridge.

André captures her during a raid on her village. Koslowski rescues her.

Koslowski helps her deliver the list to his commanding officer. The officer won’t accept the list and sends them with it to Free French General De Tassigny.

On the way they come across a dying priest. Suzanne questions him about the meaning of forgiveness but he dies before giving her an answer.

De Tassigny won’t take the list either and sends them to Free French General Leclerc waiting to take Paris.

Leclerc sends them into Paris to find the wanted people so they can be arrested when the city is liberated.

They’re captured by the Gestapo and André. Suzanne is about to suffer rape by André but General Von Choltitz, the German commandant of Paris, intervenes. André escapes. The German general sends Suzanne and Koslowski back to Leclerc with terms to prevent the destruction of Paris.

Paris is liberated. Suzanne and Koslowski make love but she won’t admit to loving him for fear of God killing him. Koslowski goes back to his unit.

Suzanne is imprisoned as a collaborator by a traitor seeking to silence her.

In the prison there’s a showdown between her and André. He is killed. She smuggles out a letter to General Leclerc who sends a unit to rescue her.

At Remagen Koslowski is seriously wounded. He’s unable to contact Suzanne and she presumes he’s either dead or forgotten her.

Suzanne is pregnant but unsure whether Jules or Koslowski is the father.

After five years Koslowski is well enough to seek out Suzanne. They arrange to meet at her apartment in Paris.

Before Koslowski arrives Suzanne is thrown into turmoil when Jules turns up. He explains that his apparent death was set up to get him out as he was a German double agent and would be executed by the French for treason after the war. He further explains that he was and still is married. The Americans have given him immunity and he’s helping them search out the communists in Western Europe. He’s come to ask for forgiveness.

When he sees her five year old son he demands to know if he is the father and she screams at him that she doesn’t know.

He tells her that giving her the list was an attempt by him to right some of the wrongs done by him.

This is the last straw as the list had nearly got her killed. She pulls a gun from a drawer and prepares to kill him. She screams that his ‘death’ had nearly driven her over the edge of insanity. Steadfastly Jules tells her he would rather she kill him if she won’t forgive him.

Suzanne then realises that she can forgive him and in doing so she understands what forgiveness means and that God will forgive her for her sin. She sends Jules away with her forgiveness.

After he has left Koslowski arrives, carrying a bunch of flowers.