Cal

Catholic Cal (John Lynch) lives with his father (Donal McCann) in an overwhelmingly Protestant area under constant threat of being burned out. They are determined not to be forced from their home, even when things turn violent, but this isnt the young mans only exposure to thuggery. He has been a driver for Republican hit-man Crilly (Stevan Rimkus) and his boss Skeffington (John Kavanagh) and that has left him with a dark secret to keep as well as a reluctance to join their crusade. Meantime, he has taken a bit of a shine to widowed local librarian Marcella (Helen Mirren) who lives out of town at her familys farmhouse. Her husband was an RUC officer gunned down on his doorstep whilst her grandfather was also badly wounded. Cal now orchestra...