

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.

John Lynch
Cal

Helen Mirren
Marcella

Donal McCann
Shamie

Ray McAnally
Cyril Dunlop

John Kavanagh
Skeffington

Stevan Rimkus
Crilly
Catherine Gibson
Mrs Morton

Louis Rolston
Dermot Ryan

Tom Hickey
Preacher
Gerard Mannix Flynn
Arty