In 1968, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon conducted a series of ‘innocent’ interviews with politicians, clergy and ordinary people of the day which exposed the truth of a repressed, suppressed and censored country; and the hypocrisy of church, politics and state. The resulting documentary is a provocative, biting portrayal of 1960s Ireland.

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.