“If those Mundy sisters had lived in the 90’s rather than the Thirties they would have conquered the world” Maeve Binchy – New York Times

 

“ Deeply moving a spellbinding experience, registers all the more powerfully on a second viewing”

 

Michael Dwyer – Irish Times

 

It is the glorious summer of 1936 and Europe is on the verge of terrible change. In the little village of Ballybeg, Co. Donegal, the Mundy sisters await the return of their brother Jack, a missionary priest now returning to Ireland after many years in Africa. The youngest sister, Christine has a little boy Michael, her love child by an irrepressible traveling salesman called Gerry Evans.

 

The devoutly Catholic Mundy sisters place the boy Michael at the centre of their world, a world soon to be turned upside down by the return of Jack and by the unexpected arrival of Gerry Evans, on his way to fight the Fascists in Spain.