MELBOURNE ACCORDING TO JACK IRISH: RAIN, WIND, RACING, SEX, CORRUPTION, MURDER Life in Melbourne isn't easy - especially when you're trying to pay off your debts by betting on horse races, trying to make a table with your own hands in a joiner's shop, and rooting for a practically winless club in Australian football whose biggest star was once his father. A father adored by football fans from his favorite pub. When one of his former acquaintances tries to contact Jack Irish, Jack at first has no idea who it is. And even after he remembers, he is in no rush to return the call. Danny McKillop reminds him of times and events that he would rather forget once and for all. But in the meantime, Danny loses his life and Jack, who is struggling through life as a jack of all trades after the death of his wife, has to admit that he owes him something. But it doesn't take long and he discovers for himself that where the law doesn't have clean hands, some debts are really hard to pay. Based on the books with Jack Irish, a brilliant TV series starring Guy Pearce was made.