A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the
sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland
It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted
Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by
MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring
escape from the notorious Maze prison. In the course of his investigations Sean
discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself
wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub
locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the "locked-room
mystery," the bigger mystery of Dermot's whereabouts might be revealed to him
as a reward. Meanwhile the clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party
conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote
speech.
