Boomerang

The opening scene is Paris 1955. A man, mid-thirties, stands with a cane at the door of a building. We only see his back. He pushes the doorbell. We are then taken to 1943 amidst a beehive of activity on USAAF airdrome. Twenty-something year old Kip Takamuri is a typical first-generation Nisei American, who joined the US Army Air Corp before the outbreak of the war and is now ready to head home after completing his 25 missions with hopes to get his parents out of their internment camp. but flies one last mission billed as a “mild run” before heading home.

The mission is anything but easy as Kip’s plane is destroyed just after he falls out of the bomb bay trying to close the frozen bomb bay doors. Narrowly surviving the fall when his parachute opens at the last minute, he meets up with Gisele, the tough as nails resistance fighter and highly suspicious Kip is an Axis spy, she is tasked with getting him to one of the escape routes to get him back to England.

Her suspicions diminish when Kip proves his mettle after he saves her life from a troublesome Gestapo Major and as trouble follows them from town to town. Their exploits take them across France, killing an unsuspecting German officer, narrowly escaping German soldiers alerted by a French traitor. Their relationship starts to change through a combination of trauma bonding and platonically sharing beds as the move from safe house to safe house. Gisele gets Kip to the maritime smugglers who will take him back to England. Once out in the channel, Kip jumps ship and almost drowns swimming back to Gisele. It is here Kip and Gisele confess their love and consummate their relationship while trying to thaw their frozen bodies in the shower.

Back with the French resistance, Kip again volunteers to steal the Germans re-designed Enigma machine because without it, the Allies could lose the war. Kip devises the plan to infiltrate the German high command in Caen, France posing as an officer with the Imperial Japanese Army. Gisele insists on acting as Kip’s “Japanese” translator. Kip and Gisele successfully steal the Enigma machine after killing two intelligence officers, the German General who holds the code book when they are discovered and race to escape the building. The German command center comes under attack as a diversion to aid in their escape which they successfully do when a German sniper kills Kip just feet from the courtyard exit.

We end back where we started, at the apartment in Paris where a man awaits the door. The door opens to a young girl. Behind the young girl her mother approaches and we now see the man at the door is Kip. With his charm, he asks if she still has his bomber jacket. She does. They embrace, kiss. He starts to explain where he's been all these years.