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Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.

This intimate character study trades battlefield carnage for the quiet, devastating friction between a poet's conscience and a rigid society. It captures the heavy cost of dissent through a life defined by both literary brilliance and profound personal isolation.

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