Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army person who drowns his sorrows. He is desperate to escape his gloomy Dublin own life and start over with his girlfriend in the us. So when authorities advertise a benefit for advice current IRA manhood Frankie, about his friend, Gypo cooperates. Can he escape the overwhelming remorse he feels like his friend, although now two tickets can be bought by Gypo onto a boat bound to the States?