In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

Frances McDormand
as Ingrid Jessner

Brian Cox
as Peter Kerrigan

Brad Dourif
as Paul Sullivan

Mai Zetterling
as Moa

Bernard Archard
as Sir Robert Neil

Michelle Fairley
as Teresa Doyle

Maurice Roëves
as Harris

Jim Norton
as Brodie

John Benfield
as Maxwell

Bernard Bloch
as Henri
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I think that with the possible expection of "Kes" (1969), I was always put off Ken Loach's films because of his so overtly self-indulging political agenda. This one also allows him to have a go at the British establishment too, as it bathes in the fertile waters of Irish political discord and by the...