THE GUARD

El sargento Gerry Boyle es un policía de provincias con cierta propensión al enfrentamiento y un sentido del humor irreverente. A Boyle, cuya madre está agonizando y cuya principal afición son las prostitutas, le trae sin cuidado la banda internacional de traficantes de heroína que ha motivado la visita del agente Wendell Everett. Pero, aunque a Boyle parece interesarle más burlarse de Everett y socavar su confianza que resolver el caso, las circunstancias terminan obligándole a implicarse. Primero desaparece su entusiasta y latoso colega; luego su prostituta favorita intenta chantajearlo para que haga la vista gorda; y finalmente los propios traficantes tratan de comprar su colaboración, como ya han hecho con los demás policías del lugar. De alguna manera, estos sucesos activan su confuso código moral. Boyle se da cuenta de que necesita ocuparse del caso personalmente y de que la única persona en la que puede confiar es Everett.

Gerry Boyle is a policeman working in a little town on the west coast of Ireland. He has a subversive sense of humour, a penchant for prostitutes, and a dying mother. In short, he has a lot on his plate; too much, in fact to worry about the mysterious dead body that has been found in one of the holiday flats. His new assistant, Aidan, sees things completely different to him; the crime represents such a huge opportunity that he might go crazy with all the excitement. Their quiet days are over when FBI agent Wendell Everett arrives on the scene and tells them about a narcotics shipment worth 500 million dollars that is due to arrive on their coast within the next few days. Everyone is on tenterhooks, and the situation soon puts and end to Gerry Boyle’s daily routine. Gerry immediately recognizes the face on one of the mug shots shown him by Everett as being identical with that of the corpse found in the holiday home. Shortly afterwards, a prostitute attempts to blackmail the stressed out small-town cop. But when the drug dealers try to buy him – a tactic that has apparently worked a treat with all his colleagues in town – upstanding Gerry Boyle realizes that the time has come for him to take things in hand. The only one he can trust is, of all people, FBI agent Everett – probably the most difficult partner a small town cop in the West of Ireland could ever imagine.