Daithi O'Suilleabhain

1935 yılının Brooklyn’i… İrlanda’dan gelen göçmenlerin ikamet ettiği bir bölgede Margaret Mary McCourt adı verilen bir kız çocuğu dünyaya gelir. Anne-baba Angela ve Malachy çok mutludurlar. Ancak, yaşadıkları maddi zorluklar nedeniyle henüz yedi haftalıkken çocuklarını kaybeden ailenin tüm umutları bebekle beraber toprağa gömülecektir.

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

Shelly Mohan is a regular mum who juggles the lives and schedules of three children and a husband who is a local detective. It’s a chaotic and mostly thankless life, but one with which she is happy…until a dark secret emerges from her past.