Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles (1968–1998) dominated life in Ireland's second-biggest population centre, and during the darkest days of the conflict--in the 1970s and 1980s--riots, bombings, and indiscriminate shootings were tragically commonplace. The British army patrolled the streets in armoured vehicles and civilians were searched for guns and explosives before they were allowed entry into the shopping district of the city centre...Belfast is still a city divided... You can see Belfast's bloodstains up close and personal. This is the city that gave the world its worst ever maritime disaster, and turned it into a tourist attraction; similarly, we are perversely proud of our thousands of murders, our wounds constantly on display. You want noir? How about a painting the size of a house, a portrait of a man known to have murdered at least a dozen human beings in cold blood? Or a similar house-sized gable painting of a zombie marching across a post-apocalyptic wasteland with an AK-47 over the legend UVF: Prepared for Peace--Ready for War. As Lee Child has said, Belfast is still 'the most noir place on earth.'"

Много лет «Адмирал Бинг» – уютный паб в приморской деревушке Крэбуэлл – посещали и местные обитатели, и туристы. Но однажды его владелец Джеффри Горацио Фитцсиммонс был найден мертвым в лодке у причала… Возможно, бедняга просто покончил с собой, сломавшись под грузом долгов, неоплаченных счетов и перспектив закрытия своего любимого детища? Но команда телевизионщиков-документалистов, прибывших в деревушку, так не думает. Они намерены выяснить, что же произошло с Фитцсиммонсом, даже если ради этого придется перевернуть каждый камень в Крэбуэлле и вытащить из шкафов все скелеты