For 30 years (1968-1998) the bloody civil war known as The Troubles raged in Northern Ireland. A young Mervyn Lewers proudly wore his green uniform for the pro-British police force in his hometown of Londonderry. One late evening in May 1988, his life exploded beneath him. A member of the Irish Republican Army(IRA) had been shadowing him and waiting for an opportunity to place a bomb under his car. Shortly after the attack, Mervyn refused to let the police photograph his dismembered legs as documentation. He feared that the images would end up in the hands of the IRA, who he wouldn't allow to mock his misfortune. No one has ever been permitted to photograph the missing legs until now. Mervyn still fights for his survival with the same phrase in his mind that he overheard a wounded soldier repeat at the hospital: "Don't let 'em break your spirit."