In Shetland, 12 Norwegian resistance fighters board a fishing boat with eight tons of TNT and cross the North Sea as part of Operation Martin with a plan to sabotage German military facilities.

[4] In March 2004, producer Veslemøy Ruud Zwart secured the film rights to the book Jan Baalsrud and Those Who Saved Him.

According to German documents, the Nazis captured and killed the other 11 members of the raid, but believed the 12th man had perished in the blast aboard their boat.

[9] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on ten critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

While complimenting the amazing scenery of Norway, VS said its magnificent nature couldn't save the film from being monotonous, overlong, and too focused on suffering.

The review complimented director Zwart's influence of Nils Gaup, "when combining magnificent coastal and mountain scenery, and the insolence of the wilderness with dense and tough action sequences".