In 1940, Germany invades Britain and transforms it into a Fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist. In 1944, Pauline, an apolitical Irish nurse becomes a reluctant player in the fight between the two sides.
A profile of one of the cinema's greatest revolutionaries and orators, the Frenchman Abel Gance, who made his first film in 1909 and whose techniques in the 1920s helped to create a cinema that was unique, grandiose and unashamedly romantic.
