Synopsis:

In this film Benjamin Britten's world of childhood and the music it inspired are explored, and some of the boys who were close to him talk for the first time about their relationships with the man. The late David Hemmings began his stage career as the boy Miles in Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw in 1954: in his last major interview, Hemmings discusses the time he spent with Britten. And the German schoolboy whom the 24 year-old composer fell in love with shortly before the Second World War talks about their relationship for the first time, after 65 years.