In a dying 1950’s town, a mysterious traveler propositions a young farmhand, Donnie, to help take down the town’s tyrannical leader in exchange for the release of Donnie’s mother from a primitive mind rehabilitation center.
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Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
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