On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.

Colin Welland
as Willie

Michael Elphick
as Peter

Robin Ellis
as John

John Bird
as Raymond

Helen Mirren
as Angela

Janine Duvitski
as Audrey

Colin Jeavons
as Donald

Dennis Potter
as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
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Anyone else grow up reading Enid Blyton books? Those "Secret Seven" or "Famous Five" stories where young folks had some jolly japes, sometime tempered with a baddie and some ingenious traps and wheezes? I thought for a while that this is what we were going to get here as a collection of youths are p...