Cast: Robert Carlyle, Gary Lewis, Scott Glenn, Pamela Turner, Laura Tredway, Andy Townsley, Luis Talavera, Elba Aurora Talavera, Ann-Marie Timoney, Maria Jose Silva
Rating: NR
Studio: Film Four International
Release date: June 26th, 1998
Synopsis:
Set in 1987, the year of the Contra rebels' assault against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, a love story which begins on a bus in Glasgow and ends amid the gunfire and explosions of war in Nicaragua. George is a free-spirited Scottish bus driver struggling against the conventionality and bureaucracy of his blue collar life. His encounter with Carla, a beautiful Nicaraguan refugee who is mourning her past and pining for her homeland, sweeps him headlong into a journey of self-discovery and political awareness.