Dean Pritchard

Alors que la Grande Guerre a éclaté, Constance Reid se marie à l'aristocrate Sir Clifford Chatterley durant l'une de ses permissions. Reparti dans les tranchées pour combattre, Clifford revient quelques mois plus tard, paralysé. Impuissant, il rejette toute affection et Constance se sent seule. Alors qu'elle se promène sur leur propriété, Lady Chatterley va faire la rencontre de son garde-chasse, Oliver Mellors. S'ensuit alors une liaison passionnelle et interdite entre les deux amants. Constance va donc devoir choisir entre son mariage avec Clifford et son amour pour Oliver...

In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as prisoners of war, but as common criminals. Mairéad Farrell – on whose life much of the film seems to be loosely based – was the first woman Republican to be refused political status in 1976. By 1980, when the film is set, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister and doggedly resolute: “There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime.” Silent Grace seeks to capture the struggle for the restoration of political status that was at the heart of prison protests in Northern Ireland – not just by the more celebrated male prisoners – but by a smaller number of women prisoners, led by Farrell, at the Armagh Women’s Prison.