Alt J’s Pleader is crafted as a short film musical, drawing inspiration from the novel, How Green Was My Valley, the photos of Bruce Davidson, Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice, and the lyrics themselves. 

Set in a Welsh mining village amidst the backdrop of impending doom, PLEADER is the story of a community whom, in their supernatural wisdom, believes the birth of a child could save their valley from destruction. And while the child, blessed with a magnetic force, can not stop the machines of war, his survival preserves the institutional memory of the land.