Set in 1950s Dublin, Steve Lawlor (Richard Leech) returns to Ireland to aid the Republican cause by taking part in the armed robbery of a security van in the North. The robbery is a success but Lawlor, who held the loot, disappears.Canadian photographer John Kevin (William Sylvester) arrives in Dublin expecting to meet Lawlor, but is informed by police that his friend died in a blazing car crash. The Republican gang believe Lawlors absent passenger in the car, bookseller Danny OCallaghan, is the traitor and has made off with the stolen money.Lawlors Italian girlfriend, doesnt believe he died in the crash and when Kevin is attacked by a mysterious assailant in a white trenchcoat, he becomes suspicious and begins investigating the circumstances of Lawlors death. But will he discover the real story behind his friendsdeath and will the Movement take their revenge on a traitor?