It is Sunday, 4 October 1936. Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists are planning to march through the Jewish East End. Over 100,000 Londoners take to the streets to stop them. This is a vivid eye-witness record of 'The Battle of Cable Street'. It tells a gripping story of a famous victory in the history of British anti-Fascism through the eyes of seven people caught up in the events of the day: an unemployed labourer; a bus-conductor; a young woman just out of prison; a policeman; two young Communists; and the titled widow of a beer baron. Their lives suddenly collide on the streets of Stepney. Like Chaplin in 'Modern Times', they are swept along by historical forces they cannot see, in a narrative of struggle that connects a narrow street in the East End of London to the battlefields of Spain and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.