An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican
Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap
by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going
horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out
Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name "Jimmy" and
gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing
about Fergus' IRA background. But there are some things about Dil that
Fergus doesn't know, either...