Wealthy art-loving British heiress Rose Dugdale, radicalised at Oxford, finds herself hiding in a remote cottage in Ireland, following an audacious and violent art heist.

Gathering at pace beyond the cottage is the biggest police hunt in Irish history. With the noose tightening, and her sanity being put under increasing pressure, Rose must decide her next move as she is holed up in the wilds of West Cork with a loaded gun and nineteen stolen masterpieces in her possession.

Baltimore is a psychological thriller based around an actual armed raid in 1974, in which 19 masterpieces were stolen from one of Ireland’s great houses – Russborough in Co. Wicklow. The raid was masterminded by English Heiress Rose Dugdale in her efforts to support the IRA armed struggle at that time. The film charts her journey from privileged aristocrat to committed rebel. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage with her two accomplices.

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