Arracht

Colmán Sharkey is a fisherman. He lives with his wife and his son. The village priest asks something of him. He is to take a stranger into his house. Patsy is a former soldier. He served in the Napoleonic wars. Around the time he arrives, disease strikes the fields. The potato crop rots. The country enters a great famine. Millions die or are driven from their homes. Colmán goes to the landlord with his brother and Patsy. He asks for the rent increases to be stopped. The meeting ends badly. The man is accused of a murder. He has to go into hiding. In that time he loses his wife and his son. Dónall Ó Héalai and Saise Quinn appear in the ninety minute film, an Irish production Tomás Ó Súilleabháin finished in 2021.