The film is set in seedy Liverpool nightclub where Angelis takes over as Manager. The plot focuses on two Irish characters in their very different communities. One is an ex-hit man (Protestant), the other a night-club manager (Catholic) who finds himself working for a very dangerous employer. The previous manager has left a lunatic legacy: hiring out the same hall for New Year's Eve to three groups of senior citizens, one hardline Irish Catholic Nationalists dressed in costume, one hardline Protestant Unionists and one of uninvolved, elderly, rather addled pensioners, who don't understand what is going on. The Catholics and Protestants recall their skirmishes and sing provocative songs to each other.