Conor McColl disappeared from Ireland over twenty years ago when he left the IRA. After spending years as an assassin for hire, he decides to return to his homeland, hoping things have changed. Avoiding Belfast, the city of his birth, he heads to Galway, looking for a respite from the recent brushes with death that he encountered. In the wild beauty of the west coast of Ireland, he discovers that violent Republicans still exist. And they haven’t forgotten his betrayal.