Starring: Adrian Dunbar, Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey, Melanie Lynskey
Gilly steps out of prison with nothing and no one except J, the friend he took the rap for. A two-bit hustler with a major drug problem, J doesn't even notice Gilly is out early. Still, they trust each other, and that means something.
All Gilly wants is to start over with the money he's owed, but J has invested it in another drugs-for-guns deal. When he sees J's wife Marie again, Gilly can't help but realize everything he hasn't got. She has built a life for them, while J steadily screws it up. Yet despite his anger and frustration, Gilly agrees to go along with J, as always.
J's boss is Max Bell, a man who will do whatever it takes, whatever it costs, and never think twice. Even J's own kid brother, Skip, is working for him running a team of teenage drug dealers. These kids have seen it all. Skip's already got the attitude, now all he wants is a gun. As J and Gilly do the rounds for Max, the monotony of violence and abuse becomes a catalyst and the tension between them is finally brought to a head. J pulls a gun on his old friend.
Pressure continues to build. The cops are now onto J in more ways than he could know. Max learns from his police contact of J's plans to make a separate gun deal with their main supplier, Jackie Junior. In order to regain control of his business, Max demands that J sacrifice Gilly in a drug deal set-up. J doesn't realize that Max is onto him and that the real plan is for the police to blame J for Gilly's murder.
Faced with Jackie Junior, wracked with guilt and about to do the deal, J finally cracks, firing off a spray of bullets. All hell breaks loose as he and Gilly blow their way out onto the street. Only then does J discover that Gilly has his own plans.
