El alcalde de Rathberney en Irlanda, es asesinado y le sucede un pariente lejano que está dispuesto a limpiar la ciudad de todo tipo de rateros, desaprensivos y delincuentes. Pero los ciudadanos deciden eliminarlo.
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.
