Parallax Pictures, Messidor Films, Road Movies, British Screen, BBC Film, Canal+ España, TVE, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, BIM Distribuzione, Diaphana Films, ARD Degeto
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.