Set in Dublin during the Easter Rising in 1916. We see a city in panic. Three Irish volunteers, trapped in a cellar, sweat it out while British troops conduct a shoot-on-sight sweep through it's tenements and back alleys. Seamus, a pawnbroker's assistant, has found himself involved perhaps a little too deeply.
Gunner is the hard bitten "professional" volunteer with a secret agenda, while Jimmy is the youngster whose patriotic and romantic ambitions are quickly disintergrating in the dreadful reality of war. Confused, trapped and claustrophobic, distrust and suspicion begins to seep through. Someone is an informer, but who?