Anita's five-year-old daughter Julie goes missing whilst playing in the playground on the council estate where they live. A huge police search is put into action, an incident room created, neighbours interviewed and arc lamps set up. Twenty-four hours later, hope is fading of finding Julie alive.
Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet, then embracing revolutionary idealism and thereby finding his romantic Messianic mission in life.