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Description
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Released from prison after serving fourteen years, former IRA member Danny returns to Belfast to revive his career as a boxer just when a ceasefire is about to be declared. He meets old republican comrades, Joe, who believes concessions can be wrung from the British, and the hardline Harry for whom there is no compromise. He also resumes his friendship with childhood sweetheart Maggie, Joe's daughter, a relationship fraught with danger as she is married to an IRA man still in prison, and with whom she has a son. In the most (symbolically) dramatic of the film's three fights, Danny fights an African challenger in a private London club, a legacy of Empire. In addition to resuming his boxing career, Danny also seeks to revive the fortunes of his old gymnasium, run by his trainer Ike. During the ceasefire, the gym is heralded as an example of nonsectarian politics, a situation which annoys Harry, who blames Danny for such publicity. In the meantime, the struggle continues between Joe and Harry, representing the two sides of the IRA and their approach to the 'peace process’. (https://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=56640)
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