Shanley Keagan, tired of the dismal pay he gets as a vaudevillian actor in Dublin pubs, takes the chance to go to America and search for his real father. Tragedy strikes, forcing Shan to use his ingenuity to create a new life in a volatile world. Two decades later, Shan's story becomes part of a prison guard's daughter's, who goes missing on the island of Alcatraz. The search for the guard's daughter will decide the fate of bank robber Tommy Capello, who is the only one who knows the truth of where she is.