A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.

A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.

A French television crew arrives in Belfast in 1981 to cover the hunger strike of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands