Michael Legge

Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.

In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, coincidentally owned by the same mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the police, the SAS, and the mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament...

A gambler who needs a quick payoff to the local mob boss unwittingly robs a store that serves as a front for the same mobster. With the local police, the SAS, and the mobster's gang in hot pursuit he takes an American hostage and, as things grow increasingly desperate, he and the hostage hatch a plan to keep them both alive.

An action-oriented story of two young lovers from rival gangs who face the violence and tragedy surrounding them in their barrio neighborhood.