 When a Resistance detachment drops by, Dandieu refuses their offer to help him and continues his vendetta on his own.Eventually, with no more cartridges for the shotgun, he collects the flame-thrower which killed his beloved wife and uses it to kill the leading SS officer as he, the last survivor, is about to commit suicide.Alerted by the partisans, the inhabitants of a nearby village and a company of American soldiers arrive to collect the dead.