Sixteen Films + 15 more, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, UK Film Council, Screen Ireland, Element Films, EMC Produktion, Tornasol Films, Diaphana Films, Cinéart, TV3 Television Network Ireland, Filmcoopi Zürich, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Pathé!, BIM Production, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
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.
