
"As a country starves, survival is everything."
Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.
Coleman Sharkey
Kitty

Patsy

Seán
Dónal
PJ
Áine

Mary
Séamus

Dan
Lieutenant

Margaret

Kate
Fr. Joachin
Bailey

Joe Pat

Bríd
Pat Madden

Saighdiúir
An Buachaill ar an mBád
Guth Dhónaill Óg