A Catholic family in Belfast gamely tries
to carry on their family life and business
in the growing shadow of a terror campaign
waged against Nationalists in the North of Ireland
by Loyalists to the British Crown
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The Gallagher family prepares to sit down to its traditional Irish supper in late 1922
when a series of unexpected guests pound at their door in mounting desperation,
seeking refuge from the violence erupting just down the road.
After the Anglo-Irish War of Independence ends
with a highly contested Treaty, late in 1921,
and the Irish Civil War looms only a few months ahead,
a nationalist middle-class Catholic family in northern Ireland
tries to co-exist peaceably amidst the mounting struggle
between the free-state Irish Republicans of the South
who refuse to accept the Ulster Partition,
and the Irish Loyalists of the North
who will fight to the death
to remain under British rule and protection.