Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Powerful drama about loyalties & the industrial workplace in early 60s Britain Factory worker Tom Arnold (Richard Attenborough) does not share the same feelings as his fellow workers in a developing industrial dispute & refuses to go on strike with them This results in him being &sent to Coventry& by all concerned including his best friend Joe Wallace (Michael Craig) The newspapers soon hear about this & the story becomes a matter of national concern with many different parties trying to use Tom&s stance to their own ends