The true story of the Gunpowder Plot takes us deep into the world of English Catholics in 1605: persecuted by the law, forced to worship in secret, suspected of disloyalty.  The prime movers were the disgruntled sons of this persecuted elite.  Who was the shadowy Guy Fawkes, the man who was to light the fuse? What drove their doomed attempt to blow up the houses of Parliament?  Were they idealistic freedom fighters, or terrorists, prepared to kill hundreds to further their cause?