Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, 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.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: 1940s , accidental-death , based-on-memoir-or-autobiography , borstal , bullying , coming-of-age , cross-dressing , gay-teenager , gay-theme , homophobia , ira-irish-republican-army , liverpool-england , norfolk , reform-school , teenage-boy