In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.

Rupert Everett
as Guy Bennett

Colin Firth
as Tommy Judd

Michael Jenn
as Barclay

Robert Addie
as Delahay

Rupert Wainwright
as Donald Devenish

Cary Elwes
as James Harcourt

Tristan Oliver
as Fowler

Anna Massey
as Imogen Bennett

Philip Dupuy
as Martineau

Guy Henry
as Head Boy
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Told by way of a interview retrospective, this is a tale of disillusionment and political naivety amongst the English upper classes in the 1930s. Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) was a student at Cambridge University - openly gay to his fellow students - on the periphery of the social and political norm...