This subtly seductive story follows Botanist, Guy Tenterden, from Oxford in 1933, to train young farmers in Dublin. After a terrible tragedy in 1943, his heart full of anger and despair Guy decides to join the RAF and fight against Germany.

His Lancaster bomber is shot down over Munich. Alone, his wounds festering and close to death, he is found by a German farmer who takes him in and dresses his wounds. With Guy’s dog tags hidden by the farmer, she has power over him and gives him a choice: 'Work on my farm or be sent off with no dog tags'. He labours on the farm, working to improve it, and helping Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust.

But when the war ends, he is arrested, brought back to England and put on trial at the Old Bailey, charged with Treason.

Guy is facing the hangman's rope. How will he survive?