Dur­ing World War II, in 1942, Mar­cel Man­gel has been influ­enced by his broth­er Simon and his cousin George Loinger to join the French Resis­tance, under the name Mar­cel Marceau. Putting his pan­tomime skills to the ulti­mate test, he will help to save numer­ous Jew­ish orphans from the grasp of the Ger­man Nazis.