A disillusioned hitman comes out of retirement for one last job when an IRA bomber on the run from the law arrives in his sleepy Irish village.

10 people escape bombing on small boat, which unexpectedly stops and sinks mid-journey. Passengers struggle to survive as boat goes down.

Follows two Brit police officers Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton in their hunt for charismatic poet and Zionist freedom fighter Avraham Stern, who was plotting to evict British authorities.