Lester Liddle is an inner city youth who decides to escape his fifties slum surroundings and a bullying step father by joining the Royal Air Force, the RAF. His tough upbringing clashes with the rigorous Boy training where discipline was based on character building through rough bullying tactics, which he finds hard to accept. He is saved from desertion by Charles, a young educated black African who as an amateur boxer protects him from the camp bully...