Ireland is reeling from the shocks of the economic crash, but Dublin’s still a small place. Bernadette Cummins is frantic: her only surviving son Gary is missing. Because her husband is a criminal godfather serving a sentence, Bernie can’t trust that the Guards will search for her son.
She turns to her childhood friend for help - Sheila Malone, Sergeant Tommy Malone’s Ma. With Bernie Gannon facing cancer, Sheila won’t let her down.
In a meet with Bernie’s infamous husband, Malone gets a coded signal that a deal can be done. A huge coup for the police? Maybe. They, no more than Malone, foresee that the collision of crime and loyalty will bring the deaths of innocents and tear a good man down.