Product Review

"...it seethes with raw personal drama." – The Globe and Mail

WINNER - Best Photography - Gemini Awards / WINNER - Best Actress - Gemini Awards / NOMINEE - Best Actor - Gemini Awards / NOMINEE - Best Supporting Actress - Gemini Awards / NOMINEE - Outstanding Achievement - Directors Guild of Canada Team Award

Directed by Gemini Award Winning and Oscar Nominated Director John N. Smith

An epic tale of love and survival

This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney – Layer Cake, Kings). In a time and place where life and death are a hair’s breadth apart, Mary joins the community’s struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape’s people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope – and even love.

approx. 6 hrs.