The poet D.R. Griffiths (18821953), also known by his bardic name of Amanwy, takes young schoolboy Ifor on a walk past the entrance to Ammanford's old mine and reminisces about conditions there. Paul Dickson's semidramatised biopic, with Griffiths essentially playing himself, is still regarded to this day as one of the finest of all Welsh films.

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