Por los buenos tiempos

We are in Northern Ireland in the tumultuous seventies. Sammy, Tommy, Barney and Patrick are four friends from Ardoyne, an impoverished, mostly Catholic area of ??North Belfast. They are also 'provos', members of the Provisional IRA who devoutly embrace the cause of a free and united Ireland. For them, the initiation to violence and the initiation to life are indistinguishable. Their friendships, their love affairs, their relationships with family and the community always develop under the shadow of armed struggle and a trail of victims and destruction, something that among theirs gives them the status of rock stars, tough guys and mysterious with an aura of both gangsters and martyrs. They extort, drink, beat up, murder, read comics and listen to Perry Como. Everything is dizzying and dazzling. It's the good times. However, a whirlwind of deaths, betrayals, corruption, internal fights and secrets that come to light threatens to end the golden age of these IRA boys.