College student Roddy McDowall takes part in a protest against the government. He escapes the reprisals and is sent by his uncle to get out of the country with the aide of the underground.
Although contemporary writing states this is about a communist country, there's nothing in the movie that specifies the matter. Instead we are told the unspecified country with German town names is under the control of invaders. Perhaps the reason for this is to lend a sense of universality to the themes of freedom fighting against oppression. Perhaps it was hope it might play in Communist countries. Regardless of the reasons, the lurking menace by nice-seeming people lends a depressed air to the film.
It's also the first film directed by Wesley Barry. He had begun as a child actor, and had starred as the title character in Marshall Neilan's DINTY. His acting career ended in the late 1930s. After the Second World War, he moved behind the camera, first as an assistant director, later as a director and producer of cheap second features and TV shows. His career seems to have ended in the early 1970s. He died in 1994, aged 86.