Sam Spurns is a natural-born fierce 21st century eco-warrior stag-spanner suffragette who combines the attitude and action of Joan of Arc and Rosa Sparks with a soupcon of Harriet Tubman.

Spurns is a lawyer during the day and a singer with English Hungers at night.

English Hungers is a bunch of brilliant renegade musicians, a hard-hitting rock band who all hold a long-standing belief in animal rights.

Spurns is tested when three thugs she prosecutes for animal abuse are on Trial. Although the evidence against the thugs is weak, everyone is aware, including the defence lawyer, that they are as guilty as sin. Witnesses for the defendants are all of their friends and act as a rent-an-alibi to support them during the Trial. The Judge is naturally misogynistic and is critical of Spurns throughout the Trial. The Judge is a friend of the Defence Counsel and finds in his favour on questions of evidence and law. The Judge hinders Spurns at every turn and his Summing-Up favours the defendants. As a result all the thugs are acquitted.

Spurns is beside herself as she feels she let the victim, a desperately ill donkey, down. She is affected personally and professionally.

As she prepares to leave Court - after the verdicts - the defendants see her in the foyer. The thugs make a vital drastic mistake by openly boasting about the fact they 'got away with it' and mocking Spurns. They then re-enact their killing of the donkey before her eyes.

Spurns decides then and there to burn her legal bridges. She decides to become an outlaw to wreak revenge on the animal abusers.She promises to avenge the dead donkey.

Spurns decides to follow in the footsteps of the Abolitionists and the Suffragettes to break the law to change and make new law. English Hungers seek and search and find the three thugs and effect their own kind of justice.

Later they make a decision to follow their ideals with yet further action as self-ordained anarchists. As swift as an arrow in flight, Spurns and the band become a group of avenging angels for all the animals.

Together Sam Spurns and English Hungers become a group of revolutionary stag-spanners who are able and ready and willing to take on the world.