On 7 December 1988, Soviet Armenia suffered a devastating earthquake. It was a catastrophic end to a year of political protests there which had put Gorbachev's reforms to their severest test. Yet it is not just in the Soviet Union that the Armenians have made their mark. In the West they have tried to get official recognition for what they regard as their greatest tragedy: the events of 1915 when they claim the Turks tried to wipe out their people. It is a claim the Turks have always denied. This film follows the fortunes of a people whose grievances have become a political factor East and West, a people who refuse to be ignored.