Gareth Jones spent his twenties as a researcher for David Lloyd George before turning to journalism, and in 1933 he became one of the first Western reporters to write about the famine Stalin was inflicting on Ukraine, a story most of his colleagues in Moscow refused to touch. Two years later, at 29, he was killed by bandits in Inner Mongolia, and filmmaker George Carey traces the case from Wales through Europe to Moscow and the stretch of Chinese borderland where Jones died, weighing whether he was murdered for what he knew about Soviet crimes or simply caught in a lawless region on a reporting trip gone wrong. The film works from faded photographs, an unsent letter, and the ashes that were eventually sent home, along with the detail that Jones, fluent in several languages, sang in Welsh to his captors when he could not otherwise communicate with them. Carey treats Jones's death as a way into the wider collision of Bolshevik Russia, Japanese-occupied China, and a European press often unwilling to print inconvenient truths.