As the Falklands War looms, an RAF recruit falls for a young barmaid, but their romance is quickly complicated with some surprising news.
Acting
Reece Dinsdale's simmering fragility; Nicola Cowper's defiant warmth.
Direction
Battersby captures Leeds as a character—grey, suffocating, inescapable.
Director
Roy Battersby
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Sean Bean's feature debut; he was still working as a welder in Sheffield when cast.
Made during the actual Falklands War, the film's dread about deployment was painfully immediate for British audiences.
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