Requiem For A Patriot

1839. The queen's realm is in the grip of revolutionary fervour. John Frost, idealistic and charismatic leader of the South Wales Chartists leads his dispossessed followers to Newport. Similar risings are planned throughout the land. these will signal a new dawn: one that heralds the end of opression by a tyrannical ruling class. But the tide of history is not turning the rebels' way. And in the depths of his struggle against a power that will severly punish him, John Frost finds succour in his passionate and enduring love for his wife.