Pig Iron is the story of a traveller who hasn’t travelled; a young man fighting for his surname and very survival. John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of the brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxing father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. As he attempts to trade prejudice, parole officers and local gangs for his ‘green cathedral’-the rural landscape in which he seeks solace- Mac’s rise and bloody downfall threatens to engulf John-John’s present.
