Cal 1984
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
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Helen Mirren
Marcella
John Lynch
Cal
John Kavanagh
Skeffington
Ray McAnally
Cyril Dunlop
Donal McCann
Shamie
Tom Hickey
Preacher
Gerard Mannix Flynn
Arty
Laurence Foster
Soldier at Roadblock
Daragh O'Malley
Scarfaced Policeman
George Shane
Second Policeman
J.J. Murphy
Man in Library
Julia Dearden
Shop Assistant
Catherine Gibson
Mrs Morton
Stevan Rimkus
Crilly
Seamus Forde
Mr Morton
Gerard O'Hagan
Soldier at Farm
Louis Rolston
Dermot Ryan
Audrey Johnson
Lucy
Edward Byrne
Skeffington Snr
Brian Munn
Robert Morton
Yvonne Adams
Neighbour
Scott Fredericks
Soldier at Farm
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Cal is a young member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1970s Northern Ireland, serving as a nighttime driver for a mission that ends in the murder of a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer at the victim’s home, with the officer’s father present and shot. One year later, Cal learns that the librarian, Marcella, Helen Mirren, is Catholic and the widow of the victim. Cal longs to leave the IRA, but the group pressures him to stay, tying his fate to a web of loyalty and fear.
He and his father live in the city, where they feel increasingly threatened by Orange Order marches and harassed by Loyalist gangs. Cal is offered work on the family farm of Marcella’s Protestant husband, a place where she now resides. At first he works as a hand, and after he and his father are burned out of their current home, he moves to a semi-derelict cottage on the farm, quietly avoiding telling the IRA his new address.
Marcella is unhappy, feeling suffocated by her domineering mother-in-law and unwell father-in-law, and she confesses that her marriage was not a happy one. Over time, Cal and Marcella begin a cautious love affair, with Marcella unaware of Cal’s role in her husband’s death and the danger surrounding him.
Around Christmas, as Cal shops for Marcella and her child, he is abducted by the IRA, who do not want him to leave. Their car is halted at a British Army checkpoint, and Cal makes a desperate attempt to escape. He reaches Marcella’s home, where he declares his love and hints at his involvement in her husband’s murder. His pursuers—the RUC—close in, and he is arrested and taken away, sealing a tense, tragic cycle of longing, loyalty, and consequence.
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