Wanted for helping the IRA in a bombing gone horribly wrong, a fugitive is smuggled into the San Francisco harbor. In order to hide here, and to lose all vestiges of his Irish past and disappear; into the new American identity, Sean soon finds himself at the mercy of one of his captors, intent on using him in as series of hackneyed drug deals to make money. Sean searches desperately for a way out, but everyone seems to have their own motives with him. As his past and future seem to disappear, Sean is left with little hope of a way out.