"As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape."
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.
Brendan Behan
Charlie Milwall
Jock
Verreker
Liz Joyce
Mac
Dale
Customs man
Manning
Holmes
Landlady
Whitbread
Alex
Joyce
Chief Dixon
James
Albert
Jerzy
Kydd
Liberian