Ethel MacDonald grew up in Glasgow before turning up in Barcelona in 1937, broadcasting anarchist propaganda over Loyalist radio in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. This drama-documentary reconstructs her story from her own recollections, read alongside archival footage of a city under siege, and sets her beside the era's better-known women, La Pasionaria and the French resistance figure Odette, whose fame she never shared. David Hayman narrates, and commentary from Noam Chomsky and other historians lays out the wider politics of 1930s Europe: the rival factions inside the Republican cause, the anarchist experiment in Barcelona, and the violent crackdown that eventually caught up with MacDonald herself. The film moves between staged sequences drawn from her own words and real footage of the wrecked streets she broadcast from, using the mix to place a single radio propagandist inside a conflict usually told through generals and governments. It is a small, specific account of one woman's part in a much larger, better-documented war.