Ben Crowe's Reel

A photographic and documentary film odyssey. On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of Che Guevara's secret mission to Congo we will follow Che's footsteps to the land of the spirits, where every dream has its shadow.

A hot summer day: two people make their way to a quiet town on the wild Northumberland coast. Sixteen year-old Verity is coming home from school. Castle, an ex soldier cut loose from the army after tours of Iraq, is drifting. Their paths never cross, but their lives become intertwined. The summer holidays offer Verity the chance to get drunk and fall in love with Karol, a young Polish immigrant. But an unspoken tension between her parents – Anne, a university professor and Jim, a policeman...