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Route Irish

[cert 15, 109 mins]

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. Refusing to accept the official account of his best friend�s death, Fergus
launches his own investigation, fuelled by the discovery of a cell phone on which Frankie
had recorded the shooting of an innocent Iraqi family just days before his own death.
As his investigation ramps up � via frequent skype conversations with former security
colleagues in Iraq and his interrogation of security firm officials in the UK � Fergus soon
draws the heat of those he is investigating and a once dirty foreign war is transferred to
the streets of Liverpool and pursued on home turf.