The resilience of the Maguire family is apparent in the life of fatherless Mary, brought up to be a good Catholic girl, or so her famine-surviving granny thought.
On finding herself in a tricky situation, Mary discovers a way to fight back with Cumann Na mBan in 1920s Glasgow before deciding to cross the pond to America, then back to the land of her forefathers in Ireland, searching to find what was never really lost.