Plot
Douglas "Arm" Armstrong (Jarvis), a retired boxer, now works as muscle for the Devers crime family after accidentally killing an opponent in the ring. Under the orders of his close friend and boss Dympna Devers (Keoghan), Arm beats a Devers associate named Fannigan (Carney) for drunkenly crawling into bed with the youngest Devers sister, Charlie (Doupe), though Fannigan insists he did not intend to molest her.
Arm struggles to connect with his autistic son Jack (Moroney) and estranged lover Ursula (Algar), who is raising Jack with the help of her mother. Ursula and Jack still have feelings for one another, but Ursula does not approve of the Devers family and Jack has trouble coping with Jack's outbursts and understanding his needs. Ursula has been taking Jack to therapeutic horseback riding sessions at a local ranch and dating the therapist Rob (Welsh), but feels a special needs school in Cork is the best option for Jack and asks Arm to help pay for the tuition.
Dympna and Arm are summoned to the Devers farm, where Dympna's uncles Paudi (Dennehy) and Hector (Wilmot) run the family business. Hector says he heard about Charlie and admonishes the pair for letting Fannigan live, giving them one chance to kill Fannigan themselves. Paudi subtly threatens to kill Jack if Arm cannot follow through on these orders. Dympna gets Arm high, then tells him where to find Fannigan walking home from the bar. He finds Fannigan walking alongside the seaside cliffs and pushes him towards the edge. Arm prepares to strike him with a stone and cast him naked into the sea, making it look like a suicide, but cannot bring himself to do it. Instead, he tells Fannigan to leave town and never return. Arm tells Dympna he followed through on the murder, and Dympna tells his uncles.
Arm starts visiting Jack more at the horse ranch and offering to take more responsibility for Jack, impressing Ursula. However, Jack becomes overstimulated at a fair under Arm's care and has an episode, causing Arm to panic and return Jack to his grandmother. Ursula tries confronting Arm at Dympna's house, but the Devers accuse her of abusing drugs while pregnant with Jack and using Arm for his money. Arm promises to make things right with Ursula and Jack and to provide money for the school in Cork, but urges Ursula to stay away from the Devers in the meantime.
Dympna and Arm are again called to the farm, this time to discuss Fannigan's murder with Paudi. Arm maintains his lie that he killed the man, but Paudi reveals Fannigan's corpse in a barn, evidently tortured to death. Paudi orders Dympna to kill Arm for his disloyalty, but Dympna allows Arm to flee for his life. Arm successfully escapes, but is shot in the side by Paudi. Arm makes his way to the house of Maire (Brennan), a wealthy widow Hector has been seeing and attempts to rob her so Jack and Ursula can get to Cork and escape the Devers' wrath. Dympna calls Arm's cell phone with Paudi beside him to try and call him back to the farm with threats to Jack and Ursula, so Arm takes Hector hostage and tells Paudi to meet him at Maire's house. Hector escapes in Arm's car, and Maire tries convincing Arm to see a doctor for his gunshot wounds. Recognizing Arm as the boxer who accidentally killed his opponent, Maire tells him his loved ones would not want this for him. He allows her to leave with her savings, but stays himself to await Paudi. Ursula calls Arm to announce she got a job at the special education school in Cork, which will pay for most of Jack's fees. Arm apologizes for acting so immaturely and tells Ursula he loves her. As Paudi pulls into the widow's driveway, Arm ends the call and waits in a chair with a hammer, bleeding out rapidly. The final scene sees Ursula packing to move to Cork, then walking Jack to his new school.
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