Year			2002
Genre			Drama
Rating			PG
Parents			Sexual content
Length			1:34
Director			Bruce Beresford
Writer			Paul Pender
Company			United Artists
Starring			Pierce Brosnan Julianna Margulies Aidan Quinn Stephen Rea Alan Bates John Lynch Show more... Pierce Brosnan Julianna Margulies Aidan Quinn Stephen Rea Alan Bates John Lynch Sophie Vavasseur Karen Ardiff Alan Barry Niall Beagan Des Braiden Lauren Carpenter Stuart Clark Eileen Colgan Mairead Devlin

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his philandering 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, Noel and Brendan, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide the Doyle children put into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.