One of the key figures in the 1916 Rising, Roger Casement was a servant of the British Empire, a knighted nobleman who turned Irish rebel when faced with the inexcusable cruelty of the British presence in Ireland. But while Casement is today regarded as one of the great humanitarians of the twentieth century, in 1916 he was denounced as a homosexual by the British establishment and hung for treason in the Tower of London. Filmmaker Alan Gilsenan frames his documentary with the continuing controversy over Casement’s alleged sexuality, but his real concerns lie with the legacy of the Casement affair and the ghosts that continue to haunt contemporary Anglo-Irish relations.