Dead Man's Cards

Ex Boxer Tom (James McMartin) is on the ropes. His promising fight career is over, his marriage is on the rocks and he's broke. When a chance encounter leads to the offer of work as a doorman at a rundown nightclub, the jury is out on whether he has taken a step on the road to redemption or finally hit the self-destruct button. He meets volatile head doorman Paul (Paul Barber, The Full Monty), a battle hardened veteran from the old school, who takes Tom under his wing and guides him through the ins and outs of life as a clubland peacekeeper. But Tom soon finds out he's entered a world of trouble when Chongi (Mark Russell), the head of the city's biggest security firm, stakes an interest in the down-at-heel club. As the tension escalates, Tom is soon forced to question his new loyalties, and whether he really has lost the bottle for a fight.