Lynch is a 19-year-old "squaddie," a member of a British army unit stationed in Northern Ireland. Trying to quell a riot, he and another soldier are isolated and faced by an angry advancing mob. In self-defense, Lynch shoots and kills a man. He is whisked off and incarcerated in England,
where the powers that be, seeking to defuse the attendant controversy, have determined to make an example of the young Welshman by trying him for murder. Lynch will have no part of it, and pleads innocent. The narrative jumps back and forth between Lynch's struggle for survival in the face of
harassment by his guards and flashbacks to the events leading up to the shooting, includin...
Released:
1986
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins