Synopsis: -
Tracing the career and personal life of its representative British protagonist (George Grant) from his youth in the Second World War through an imagined alternative to the sequence of events since 1941: an early British capitulation to avoid bombing, a reorganization of Britain's domestic and foreign policy, the subtle invasion of English culture by Nazi technical, military and cultural milieu, the gradual complicity in racial atrocities, and the 'inner migration' of those incapable of direct rebellion. George, like Hitler, lives on, aided by miraculous medical transplants reserved for the state's elite and seems destined to outlast even his will to live. The nightmare ends, ironically, in a double vision of the framing scenes, in which George - in both his 'real' and his alternative role - makes essentially the same speech about 'why we are here today.
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