Irish Republican prisoners in the Maze Prison's H-Blocks refuse to wear standard uniforms starting in 1976, wrapping themselves in blankets instead as part of a protest that escalates through the "dirty protest" and, by 1981, hunger strikes that kill ten men. This film gathers the men who lived through those years inside the blocks, tracing how morale held across five years of isolation: the jokes passed between cells, songs sung through walls, and makeshift communication systems that kept hundreds of prisoners connected despite total lockdown. Former blanketmen describe the daily mechanics of protest, from smuggled messages to the psychological toll of years without clothes, visits, or reading material, and the film treats their endurance as the story rather than the politics surrounding it. The hunger strike deaths sit at the center as the protest's cost, but the focus stays on what came before, how a prison population organized itself to survive a five-year standoff with the British state.