Requiem For A Patriot

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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.