In Development

Hugh Hamilton, a handsome young Londoner of Anglo-Irish descent, enjoys a life of ease and pleasure. He doesn’t think too hard about what funds this comfortable existence. But when his grandfather becomes too ill to run the family estate in Ireland, Hugh is dispatched to Connemara at the height of An Gorta Mór, known widely as the Great “Famine”.

There, he glimpses for the first time the plight of his family’s tenants. He comes into bitter conflict with his callous and cash-strapped father. He also falls in love with Delia Cunningham, his grandfather’s nurse.

But Delia’s entangled in a web of her own, with one brother involved in political violence and another, a child of seven, under her care.

Hugh and Delia face one another over a chasm of social class and centuries of struggle for Irish independence. Love may not be enough.