Neil Jordan’s debut is a crime drama about Danny, a saxophonist who embarks on a revenge mission when the girl he befriended after she had witnessed the murder of his band’s manager herself gets killed. In the search for the killers and answer to the eternal question – “Why?” – the only thing Danny finds are more questions, as he eventually becomes a murderer himself. The film’s melancholic, dreamlike atmosphere will later become one of Jordan’s stylistic signatures, and the actor playing Danny, Stephen Rea, one of his regular associates. The film was criticized for depoliticizing violence in Northern Ireland.