Borstal Boy

As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape.

A coming-of-age drama set in a 1940s reform school where a young IRA prisoner navigates institutional brutality, identity, and survival amid homophobia and bullying.

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.