Collette, jeune veuve, est une républicaine, vivant à Belfast, avec sa mère et ses frères, de fervents activistes de l’IRA. Suite à son arrestation après un attentat avorté au cœur de Londres, Mac, un agent secret du MI5, lui offre le choix : passer 25 années en prison et ainsi perdre ce qu’elle a de plus cher, son fils, ou espionner sa propre famille. Elle décide de faire confiance à Mac, et retourne parmi les siens…

Doppio gioco

Irlanda del Nord, anni 90. Colette viene arrestata da un agente e costretta a scegliere tra la sua famiglia, presunta sostenitrice dell'IRA, e i servizi segreti britannici che le eviteranno il carcere e la lontanaza dal filglio di 10 anni, in cambio delle sue informazioni. Parte così uno spy thriller dove non è mai chiaro da che parte stanno i buoni.

Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son's life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brother's secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.

Set in 1990's Belfast, Shadow Dancer is a heart-wrenching thriller about a woman forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.