Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Pierce Brosnan
Aidan Quinn
Julianna Margulies
Stephen Rea
John Lynch
Sophie Vavasseur
Alan Bates
Niall Beagan
Hugh McDonagh
Mairead Devlin
Frank Kelly
Clare Mullen
Alvaro Lucchesi
Garrett Keogh
Daithi O'Suilleabhain