Production Companies

Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BiM Distribuzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Overview

"War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood."

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.