Based on Jacques Offenbach's opera, The Tales of Hoffmann takes viewers through three fantastical stories, regaled to us by narrator E.T.A. Hoffman who revisits the tales of his three loves; Olympia, an animated doll, Giuletta the Venetian courtesan, and Antonia, a singer's daughter hidden away from the world.
When a stream carries a torrent of mud down into the Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, 118 men are trapped inside the mine, with nine men missing. Ex-miner and Coal Board official John Cameron (John Gregson) heads down into the mine, to try and formulate a rescue plan for the miners.
