Charlie Henshaw is a lowlife salesman and generally shady character. Faced with the unlikely task of having to sell a job lot of stolen fire extinguishers, he decides to recruit some help. When the mysterious Ella and innocent Tony sign up, we have the unlikely beginning of a road movie with a difference. Crammed into Henshaw's car with their improbable merchandise, they head west across Ireland. We slowly discover that each of them is traveling for a very different reason. Each has a secret and a past that seem destined to catch up with them by the end of the trip. By turns comic and tragic, Hard Shoulder takes you along on a journey across Ireland with a delightfully uncertain ending.
Olwen Fouere, Johnny Murphy, Donal O'Kelly, Geoffrey Golden, Eamonn Hunt, Gina Moxley, Kira Carroll, Tom O'Brien, Pat Leavy, Jackie Mulvey, David Gorry, Carmel Rooney, Sheila Flitton, Michael O'Brian, Mick Nolan
