A true story of a terrible miscarriage of justice 11 year old Lesley Molseed was found murdered on the moors of northern England in October 1975 two months later a local man Stefan Kiszko was charged with her murder and in 1976 was convicted of her murder but Kiszko was innocent.This is the story of one of the most terrible miscarriages of justice in British legal history. The film shows us that Kiszko is a harmless mummy's boy who works as tax clerk during the week and spends his weekends with his mother,the police come to his house to question him regarding an incident involving indecent exposure,his mother tells the police that he was in hospital having an operation on his foot at the time,when the police find out that the operation took place months before they take him in for questioning this time for the murder,over the next couple of days Kiszko is brow beaten and coerced into confessing to a crime that not only did he not commit but due to a medical condition he could not commit before being allowed access to a solicitor,at his trial his defence led by future home secretary David Waddington seem to assume his guilt from the start and try to persuade Kiszko to let them plead diminished responsibility on his behalf and partly due to this disastrous decision his fate for the next 16 years is sealed,the film then concentrates on his mother Charlotte's determination despite age and ill health to clear her son's name despite hitting a brick wall every time the film also shows the horror that Kiszko suffers serving a life sentence,being labelled a child killer,being beaten up by other inmates and finally suffering a mental breakdown,Charlotte finally finds a solicitor who will take up the case and after much hard work and investigation gets the case heard at the court of appeal and the conviction is quashed,but there is no happy ending as Kiszko and his mother are both broken and scarred and within 2+1/2 years both are dead The film is very well made with special mention to Tony Maudsley who is totally convincing as Stefan Kiszko as is Olympia Dukakis as his mother Charlotte. In November 2007 the real murderer was finally convicted of this terrible crime after getting away with it for 32 years