After risking his love, career and life, the young journalist eventually discovered the British government's plan to hide the Soviet Union's most violent and brutal crimes against the Polish officers.
As the movie proceeds, it shrugs off its televisual atmosphere and pacing, becoming a brooding and increasingly fatalistic noir in which Stephen's opportunities for disclosing what he knows diminish until there are none left.
The underlying historical material for Szkopiak's film is fascinating, but the attempt to mold it into an old-fashioned cinematic thriller proves misguided.