Storyline

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.

Plot Keywords

teenage girl, painter, eating, ladder, map, hayloft, strangulation, overalls, drag, digging, barbed wire, smuggling, librarian, trial, gift, underwear, boxing match, bowing, boat, communist

Short Review

Dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material.

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