Love & Hate in a Small Town

A love story set in turbulent times…Britain in the Thirties and the approach of the Second World War. The year is 1936… and nineteen-year-old former grammar schoolboy Robert Hammond is living in lodgings in a small East Anglian town of Levendon, working as a trainee reporter on the weekly newspaper. He befriends a brother and sister, Maurice and Sylvia, who, like him, are strangers to the town, and falls for Sylvia. But his idyll is shattered when Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts come to town and form a branch of the British Union of Fascists. Maurice is one of the main disrupters at their meeting and, when he is arrested and taken to court, the family’s secret comes out. Maurice, now a committed left-wing rebel, takes Robert to London to join in the famous ‘Battle of Cable Street’, but when he goes off to fight in the Spanish Civil War, the family blame Robert for not stopping him, and bar him from ever seeing Sylvia again…