In 1933, Gareth Jones is an ambitious young journalist, who has gained some renown for his interview with Adolf Hitler. The son of an English teacher in the Welsh colony of Hughesovka in Soviet Ukraine, Jones is troubled by the question of how Stalin’s Soviet Union can be having a spending spree, as the numbers do not add up.
Jones works as a political advisor to David Lloyd George, the former British prime minister, but with funding limited owing to the economic difficulties, and after failing to make his case in a critical meeting, he is made redundant. Trading on his connections in Britain and in Russia, Jones manages to obtain a Russian visa with the intention of setting up an interview with Stalin.
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Upon arrival he meets Eugene Lyons, a Russian-American journalist, who is with a party of British engineers from Metropolitan-Vickers; they take him to a party at the home of Walter Duranty and give him cryptic hints that the Soviets are not as enlightened as they make out. Through a chance meeting with fellow British journalist Ada Brooks, he learns that his contact in Moscow was murdered by the authorities while investigating the supposed Ukrainian agricultural revolution.
Armed with this information, Jones alters his documents and obtains an invitation to Ukraine by the Soviet foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov. On his journey south, he discovers the harsh reality of the famine-stricken villages and the deliberate actions of Moscow in causing famine.
Taken to a Soviet prison, Jones faces interrogation but refuses to bend to the pressure of the Soviets. Back in London, he meets George Orwell, who encourages him to tell the truth. Despite facing opposition from Duranty and Litvinov, Jones stands firm in his belief of exposing the truth about the famine in Ukraine.
Jones reaches out to media mogul William Randolph Hearst to use his publications to revive the accusations of induced famine. The extra publicity revives public belief in the truth of the Holodomor. The film ends by recording that Jones died while reporting in Inner Mongolia, standing as a symbol of truth and integrity in journalism.
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