Bobby Sands, member of the paramilitary organization IRA, goes to hospital and soon goes into hunger strike. He motivates his inmates to join him in order to gain international publicity. Their primary goals were to regain the status of political prisoners and freedom inside the prison. As the global public starts aknowledging this hunger strike, several of his inmates join Bobby Sands. One time, Sands discusses the idealism and morality of his hunger strike with a priest and is even able to convince the priest to respect his position. After 66 days in hunger strike and wash strike Bobby Sands dies in prison.