Fort McCoy is based on actual events during WW II. The story pivots on a barber who moves with his family during WWII to a POW camp in Wisconsin. His children are the sole youngsters on the base — save for a German teenager who forms a bond that crosses language barriers with the barber’s little girl.

Eric Stoltz, Brenda Fehr, Camryn Manheim, Lyndsy Fonseca, Seymour Cassel and Kate Connor star in the independent war drama with a $1 million budget that is filming in Wisconsin.