Nellie
Рожденная под Рождественской звездой, Ноэль верит, что обладает даром творить чудеса. Поэтому когда коварный застройщик МакКерод начинает угрожать её мирной жизни, она и её друзья решают использовать этот дар, чтобы помешать его планам и спасти свою деревню.
Maureen
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
Mira O'Neill
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
Finn
A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.
