Terence Ryan

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.

Following Southern Rhodesia’s declaration of independence, many face victory, while others grapple with violence under these new terms.

At the end of the first World War, Canadian soldiers revolt against the bad condition they endured while in Wales.