Jill has everything; a successful career, four close, if somewhat exotic, friends (her 'family') and a live-in lover. They provide for all her needs including, eventually, a baby. But that is where reality sets in.
This is a semi-autobiographical, dramatised documentary about the life of film director John Pett, as he grew up in Shebbear, an isolated village in Devon, in the 1930s.
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Setembro de 1944, os Aliados confidencialmente mandam para a Normandia um grande grupo de soldados para a operação Market Garden, cuja intenção era dar um fim para a Segunda Guerra Mundial, invadindo a Alemanha e destruindo as indústrias de guerra do 3º Reich. Durante a operação, disparidades políticas no campo de batalha, mó sorte nas condições meteorológicas e falhas na inteligência levam ao desastre da missão. A história do mais trágico erro tático da Segunda Guerra Mundial, que custou a vida de muitos soldados.
