Paris, 1977. Isabella Martinez was twenty-four when she filed a lawsuit against Étoile Productions for what the defense called isolated misconduct. Carmen Delacroix was fifty-two when she walked into the Palais de Justice and proved the misconduct had been policy since the 1940s. Over five explosive days, the trial transforms from a routine workplace harassment case into a reckoning with French cinema’s darkest secrets. Carmen’s testimony reveals a network of surveillance, blackmail, and forced disappearances stretching back to the studio system’s golden age—but her return from exile wasn’t just an act of courage. It was the activation of a pattern decades in the making.

As the jury deliberates through a rain-soaked night, the real battle continues in shadows: between the women who survived and the families who orchestrate their survival. Sharp, suspenseful, and haunted by ghosts from cinema’s golden age, The Army of the Wounded is a story about truth, vengeance, and the cost of speaking when silence has protected the powerful for generations.