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
as Cal
Helen Mirren
as Marcella
Donal McCann
as Shamie
Ray McAnally
as Cyril Dunlop
John Kavanagh
as Skeffington
Stevan Rimkus
as Crilly
Catherine Gibson
as Mrs Morton
Louis Rolston
as Dermot Ryan
Tom Hickey
as Preacher
Gerard Mannix Flynn
as Arty
Seamus Forde
as Mr Morton
Edward Byrne
as Skeffington Snr
