Female, 23 years old, seeks male for relationship without speaking. That's how the advert is worded by Dara, a girl in the west of Ireland. Before long, she meets a young man called Senan and together they embark on a kind of silent adventure. There's something about him she doesn't know, but he's not going to be chatty about it.

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

A homeless Irish girl encounters a series of men who appear strikingly similar to each other