![The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/76UbFh03IvO8fwD8MywFpdfUCcj.jpg)
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.