'H3' is a universal story of endurance and courage set inside Europe's most secure prison the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Here in H3 - the bleakest of all the H-blocks - a group of young republican prisoners hold out for what they believe in refusing to be labeled as criminals or co-operate with prison authorities. However British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is determined that these Republican prisoners will be treated like all the other common criminals in British jails ending a special regime which allowed the inmates political status to organise life inside the jail along POW lines. The republican prisoners immediately start a 'no-wash' protest refusing to wear prison-issue clothes or perform work duties a protest which results in their being locked in their cells for hours on end without exercise recreation reading materials and with only blankets to wear for heat...