Friends toast each other in clandestine meetings. Neighbors in urban gang territory share backyard gossip.
Lovers embrace on moonlit rooftops in brief respite from the violence below.
At such times, life is affirmed. Danny and Maggie know how it feels. They have been drawn to each other since they were teenagers growing up in Belfast, but because of where they were born, their lives have been shaped by random danger. They have seen bullets shatter bedroom windows and bombs rip apart local pubs, and they are bound by ancient, unquestioning loyalty to the ties of blood, tribe and tradition. To violate such a code would be to willfully sacrifice what looks like their people's only hope.