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A young doctor in the French army learns to survive and treat the wounded on the battlefield. In this wonderful adventure story, we get a glimpse of everyday life in the army.
Virginie likes to help others, perhaps because her parents, Vietnamese boat people, were themselves helped by the French state. Her first mission is with the paratrooper commando unit at the Gao base in Mali. It’s not exactly an easy place to live, and when you are the first woman to join the PCU, things are even more challenging. Thankfully Virginie has Aline, one of the nurses, and old Mr. Tran, the base’s handyman, to look out for her. She soon proves herself by saving a soldier who is seriously wounded while on mission. When the unit begins to notice an unnerving frequency in attacks on their convoys, the commanding officers start to get suspicious: there must be a leak. Captain Panor, who leads the investigation, does not leave any stone unturned. And one of his leads brings him to Virginie…