Female Agents begins in May 1944 when French Resistance fighter Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau) is recruited by British spy organisation the Special Operations Executive to put together an all-women squad to parachute into occupied France and rescue an injured British agent in a hospital. Things get messy when the SOE orders the team to next travel to Paris to assassinate high-ranking SS officer Colonel Heindrich (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's learned too much about the impending D-Day landings at Normandy.