Monica
Grief stricken Róise lost her husband, Frank, two years ago. Her son, Alan, worries about her but the arrival of a mysterious dog seems to bring happiness to her life once more. Róise soon comes to believe that the dog is, in fact, Frank reincarnated. He has come back to be with her again… and to coach the local sports team…
Dolores
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
Old Nora
A seventeen year old girl who has lived all her life on an island off the coast of Ireland is faced with the choice to remain there or emigrate to America.
Mrs. Byrne
아일랜드 시골에서 뉴욕 브루클린으로 이민 온 엘리스(시얼샤 로넌)는 이방인으로서 미국 사회에 적응하기 위해 애쓴다. 그녀는 이탈리아계 미국인 토니(에모리 코헨)와 사랑에 빠지지만, 여동생의 죽음으로 다시 아일랜드로 돌아온다.
An Bean
Two Dubs, Sean and Ger, get wind of the proverbial pot of gold and what should be a straight-forward job becomes a fiasco. But, there's an old Irish saying - "Filleann an feall ar an bhfeallaire - What goes around comes around".
Nonie
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
Mrs. Smith the Blind Lady
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Priest's Housekeeper
아일랜드 한 가난한 농부의 장남이었던 불 매케이브("Bull" McCabe: 리차드 해리스 분)는 아들, 타이그 매케이브(Tadgh McCabe: 숀 빈 분)와 함께 불모지였던 한 과부의 땅을 10년 동안 열심히 가꿔 기름지게 만들어놓는다. 아들의 장래를 위해 불은 그 땅을 사기 원하지만 10년 동안 타이그와 매케이브의 친구, 버드(The 'Bird' O'Donnell: 존 허트 분)로 인해 밤마다 두려움에 떨었던 과부는 그 땅을 공매에 붙인다. 불은 사전에 50파운드의 경매가로 그 땅을 사려하지만 이미 양키(Peter, "The Yank": 톰 베린저 분) 편이 돼버린 신부(Father Doran: 숀 맥긴니 분)와 플래니건(Flanagan: 존 코우리 분)이라는 경매장이의 방해로 실패한다. 이에 격분한 불은 아들과 양키를 싸움 붙여 양키를 손보려 하지만 지나치게 흥분한 불은 본의 아니게 양키를 죽이게 되고 타이그는 충격을 받게 된다. 더군다나, 불과 아내가 죽은 형 쉐이미에 대해 얘기하는 것을 엿듣게 되고 그 길로 평소에 관심있던 집시 처녀 케이씨를 찾아가 둘은 같이 마을을 떠나려 한다. 불은 어떻게 해서든 아들을 말려 보려고 하지만 타이그가 말을 듣지 않자 반 정신이 나간 상태로 소 떼를 몰고 절벽으로 가는데...
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
Edie Marinan
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Elizabeth
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
