Hold To Account

Peter Howard, a soon-to-retire bank manager in a large Irish town during the Celtic Tiger, is asked to temporarily take over the job of Joan Archer, a colleague who has been suspended from duty without explanation. Peter deals with the impact on the staff, the self-serving attitude of Joan’s customers and the trauma caused to her family. His enthusiasm for the role is gradually eroded as he contends with the bank’s flawed procedures and the inefficiency of self-regulation. As a web of tax evasion, money laundering and property speculation is revealed, Peter unwittingly becomes enmeshed in a situation which endangers his own job and reputation while we encounter a banking system which contains the seeds of its own inevitable collapse.