Fergus (Mark Womack) returns to his native Liverpool for the funeral of his childhood friend Frankie (John Bishop), a fellow private security contractor who has been killed on 'Route Irish', the deadly and now infamous stretch of road between Baghdad airport and the Green Zone.

Director Ken Loach (Looking for Eric, Land and Freedom) and screenwriter Paul Laverty have created a fast-paced conspiracy thriller that delivers a fresh insight into the moral and political corruption at play in Iraq.