In 1877, twenty Irish coal miners hanged for a terrorist conspiracy that never occurred.
“Anywhere But Schuylkill” is the story of one who escaped, Mike Doyle, a teenager trying to find a new home before his alcoholic uncle kills one of his siblings. He takes a job with a union leader, who is also a gangster, while secretly courting his daughter, and quickly learns that the gang leader, cops and rival gang all want him dead.