The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Stars
Helen Mirren
Fionnula Flanagan
Aidan Gillen
David O'Hara
John Lynch
Tom Hollander
Tim Woodward
Ciarán Hinds
Terry George