It is 1976 in Ballycharles, a small town on the shores of Lough Neagh. Two pillars of the community – a Protestant farmer and a Catholic solicitor are locked in a power struggle.

Blackmail and intrigue are thick in the air in a drama which explodes through three decades – from the lost innocence of the seventies to the drums of marching bands and calls for re-routing in the nineties.