With every action there is a reaction, and if you take action there will be consequences - there all always consequences - but who among us really think things through?

SYNOPSIS:

The setting is early 1970’s working class Belfast, Northern Ireland. Different from other parts of Belfast in that it is a patchwork of small areas divided along sectarian lines, however the boundaries have become quite blurred since the 1960’s. When the ‘Troubles’ erupt some choose to get involved, others are given no choice. We follow Tommy, a catholic teenager brought up in a protestant street. Tommy’s choice is to take action, without really thinking things through, as teenagers often will. But he discovers that there are consequences, there are always consequences. Tommy joins the youth wing of the Official IRA, although in his eyes it’s for political reasons. Along the way he also discovers that he’s falling in love. Pulled this way and that, a helter-skelter series of events is set in motion which leave him washed up in a prison camp called Long Kesh, from where he and his comrades try to make sense of it all.