A young woman comes home to Dublin for Christmas after ten months away. When her family resumes their old hostility, Sandra's only alternative is to return to desperate circumstances in London.

In the near future a young biker leaves his crumbling life in rural Ireland to join a strange 'metal circus' as it tours the cities of Europe. He discovers a dark side to the circus and decides to leave, but finds he is caught between his love of a circus girl and the dark hand of the boss who is determined he stays.

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

Successful criminal partners Jimmy Gaffney and Gino Kane pull off a bank robbery with their new young and unpredictable accomplice Mickey Crowley. The robbery goes horribly wrong when Crowley accidentally kills a young rookie policewoman. The pressure put on them by the police and their own personal guilt now strains the friendship sending them on a journey of deceit, betrayal and ultimately murder. But is something more sinister at work. Something unnatural. Something dark. Something with plans of it's own.