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.

• Parallax Pictures
• Messidor Films
• Ian Hart
• Rosana Pastor
• Frédéric Pierrot
• Icíar Bollaín
• Tom Gilroy
• Angela Clarke
• Eoin McCarthy
• Suzanne Maddock