During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.

Ewan McGregor, Peter Jeffrey, Nicholas Farrell, Louise Germaine, Giles Thomas, Douglas Henshall, Roy Hudd, Maggie Steed, Nicholas Jones, Shane Rimmer, Jim Carter, Bernard Hill, Clive Francis