Screenplay
Em 1938, a britânica Joan Stanley estudava física em Cambridge quando se apaixonou por um jovem comunista. Na mesma época, ela foi convocada pelo Comitê de Segurança Russo (KGB) para atuar como espiã do Governo de Stalin no Reino Unido. Depois de mais de cinquenta anos de serviço muito bem sucedidos, ela foi descoberta e presa pela Serviço de Inteligência Britânico (MI5).
Scenario Writer
In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their commercial dominance. In 1839, the Middle Empire introduced prohibition. The Opium War was declared… Great Britain emerged as the winner, but the warning was heeded: it could no longer depend on Chinese tea. The only alternative possible was to produce its own tea. The East India Company therefore entrusted one man with finding the secrets of the precious beverage. His mission was to develop the first plantations in Britain’s Indian colonies. This latter-day James Bond was called Robert Fortune – a botanist. After overcoming innumerable ordeals in the heart of imperial China, he brought back the plants and techniques that gave rise to Darjeeling tea.
