Margaret Wade

A BAFTA award winning drama, set on the Isle of Man, looking at the policy of mass internment of all people of enemy nationality by the British government during World War II.

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.

Las de ses missions violentes, Martin Fallon, l'un des meilleurs «exécuteurs» de l'IRA, quitte l'Irlande pour l'Angleterre. Traqué par ses amis qui veulent le faire passer devant un tribunal révolutionnaire et par la police, il recherche, dans les bas quartiers de Londres, le passeport et les fonds qui lui permettront de vivre sous une autre identité. Seul le gangster Jack Meehan peut l'aider. mais le prix à payer est très lourd: supprimer un autre gangster, Krasko...