Walker incites the slaves to revolt under the leadership of a dock worker, José Dolores (Evaristo Márquez), while simultaneously convincing plantation owners to turn against the government.

A decade later, however, Walker must return to Queimada to confront his one-time pupil, Dolores, who now leads a revolt to throw out the British. Another wonderful collaboration between a master actor and a ground-breaking director, this time in the shape of Gillo Pontecorvo who had only three years earlier directed ‘The Battle of Algiers.’