Hiding in South America, Michael runs hotel security in Lima, dealing with rowdy tourists and prostitutes. But his quiet life unexpectedly ends at the very moment when two Colombian thugs break into his room and, at gunpoint, force him to answer a call from his former mistress Bridget Callaghan from Ireland. Bridget, who lost her fiancé through Michael's fault, offers him a choice: either he will come and find her daughter, or he will be killed on the spot. Michael arrives in Dublin on Bloom's Day, June 16th, when James Joyce's Ulysses is set. And during this one day he will have to penetrate into the very heart of the IRA and conduct a complex investigation in search of the missing girl.