80 年代初期的波兰小镇，一名妓女和青年组织领袖惨遭杀害。 警方着手调查此案，办案手法却引起两名记者的怀疑。

World On Fire series two will take viewers from the streets of Britain into occupied France, Nazi Germany, and to the sands of the North African desert, where British troops struggle alongside Indian Sappers and Australian Diggers to adapt to a very different kind of combat.