Publisher's Synopsis
Mike Barker's costume drama is set 1645 when England is coming out of a civil war. The New Model Army have defeated the Royalist forces and King Charles I (Rupert Everett) is now imprisoned. General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) celebrates with his deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) but they don't agree on what to do with the King. However, it is the more powerful of the two, Cromwell who manages to take charge and in order to indroduce his new parliamentary ideas he must put the King on trials and eventually execute him.
