Cheryl O'Dwyer

A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.

Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.

Née sous l'étoile de Noël, Noelle pense avoir le don d'accomplir des miracles. Ainsi, lorsque le promoteur McKerrod menace sa vie paisible, elle et ses amis décident d'utiliser ce don pour contrecarrer ses plans et sauver leur village.