Pierce Brosnan produced and co-stars in this Irish family drama, directed by
Eugene Brady and set on the island of Inis Dara. Since farmer Tony Egan (
Donal McCann) has had no contact with his sister over two decades, he's startled to find she married a black New Yorker and managed a Hell's Kitchen grocery, facts he learns when her son, artist Chad Egan-Washington (
Hill Harper of
Spike Lee films) arrives on the island to scatter her ashes. A romance between Chad and Aislin (
Aislin McGuckin) disturbs her father, bartender Joe Brady (Brosnan), not for racial reasons, but because Joe once had an ill-fated love affair with Chad's mother. Chad's questions dig up other long-buried family secrets and tensions. Shown in the market section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide