Ricky
Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?
Charlie Dalton
Em 1916, na Irlanda, Michael Collins é preso em virtude de participar de uma manifestação contra a presença inglesa em seu país. É neste período que ele passa a acreditar que a guerrilha poderá levar seus compatriotas ao fim de uma submissão ao governo inglês, que dura 700 anos. Assim é criado o Exército Republicano Irlandês, o IRA, conseguindo em 1921 realizar o primeiro acordo de paz com os ingleses, quando fundou a República da Irlanda do Norte. Mas a paz almejada foi apenas o início de um conflito entre Irlanda do Norte e Inglaterra, que permanece até os dias de hoje.
Mark
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
O'Donnell
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.
