THIS startling new feature-length documentary highlights the issues surrounding hunting with hounds and how ordinary people are often adversely affected by it.

The film was started by Nisa Ward, on a shoestring budget, after the tranquillity of her idyllic Cotswolds hamlet was twice shattered by invasions from out of control hounds chasing wild animals. She began by investigating similar incidents.

Nisa reveals an untold story – of ordinary people who find their peace and security ruined by hunt intrusion. Penwith resident Amanda Richardson speaks movingly of how her beloved pet cat was literally torn to pieces by hounds from the Western Hunt in 2009. The near despairing accounts of a Midlands couple and a single lady goat farmer from Devon, who seem unable to gain any relief from constant intrusion, are equally arresting.

The conduct of hunting since the ban in 2005 is also examined. Experienced monitors' testimony and footage raise serious questions as whether hunts really are, as they claim, acting within the current law.

Nisa gives the hunters ample opportunities to explain their behaviour, but the accumulation of hideous images and contrary testimony so skilfully interwoven powerfully contradicts them.