Marion O'Dwyer

An Irish widow works hard to support her family and realise her dream of seeing singer Tom Jones in concert.

A struggling fisherman rescues a mysterious young woman at sea whose behavior resembles that of a mythical creature.

Young Tilly (Catherine Steadman, The Tudors, Game of Thrones) is uprooted from her New Hampshire farm by her grandmother, Isabella (Jacqueline Bisset, Nip / Tuck, Welcome to New York), a wealthy society woman determined to make Tilly’s dream of becoming a writer come true. Just days before Christmas, they’ve arrived in Dublin, where Tilly is to become the protégé to Ireland’s Poet Laureate, and if all goes well, wife to the old man’s cynical son, Cameron (Leon Ockenden, Secret Diary of a Call Girl). But Tilly’s independent spirit soon paves a different course of action altogether.

A mother tells a lie for her beloved son that rips apart their family and close-knit Irish town— ultimately testing her own sense of right & wrong.