Plot: Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.
Alternative Plot: Johnny Doyle leaves a past of violence in Ireland and decides to go to London until his former mentor, Flynn, breaks out of prison with plans of stopping the peace process. They are stuck together in Johnny's safe house with a gangster downstairs, and as Flynn befriends the gangster, Johnny cannot help but fall for his girlfriend which leads to an all out war.
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