THE PULL OF THE STARS

Dublin, 1918. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centr e, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented and stressed world enter two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, wanted by the police as a Sinn Féin revolutionary leader, and a young volunteer hel per, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each others lives in unex pected way...[Read more]