The screenplay, written by McQueen and Enda Walsh, has many good moments, such as the clean clothes the Brits force the Irish to wear to receive visitors (Otherwise they are naked, in protest of wearing criminals» clothes), a masturbation scene wherein one prisoner, in a cell smeared with feces, somehow feels embarrassed to waken his
cellmate with the sounds of his self - pleasure, the scene of how the Brits need to powerwash the excremented cells, only to have the prisoners returned to the cells and break their cots and
other furniture in protest — again inflicting almost as much brutality on themselves as the Brits do.
If all that wasn't enough, it doesn't get much better for Danny when there's a race riot at Tuccahoe, and afterwards, his former
cellmate and a couple of
other cons show up at his house wanting a safe place to hide out.