Trevor Nunn : 2018
The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley is a retired scientist living in a London suburb. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she's arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. We flash back to 1938, and young Joan is a new student at Cambridge, where a chance encounter with Sonya, an alluring fellow student, draws her into a circle of politicised youths supporting the Republicans in Spain and the Soviet dream of a classless society. Joan falls for Sonya's brother Leo, a dashing idealist in search of adventure. When the Second World War begins, Joan goes to work at a top-secret British intelligence project of great interest to Leo. Joan is soon facing several difficult choices: between national loyalties, between belief systems, between men. Confronted with an impossible question – what price would you pay for peace? – Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones or saving them. Trevor Nunn's feature premiered in Special Presentations at Toronto International Film Festival 2018.
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