This contemporary Irish Western starts in the slums of Dublin, where Papa Riley (Gabriel Byrne), once a leader of a nomadic tribe of travelers, has settled with his two young sons, Ossie (Ciarßn Fitzgerald) and Tito (Ruaidhrf Conroy). The death of his wife, Mary, in childbirth has broken Riley and turned him against the road. It's a glum life for the boys. Then screenwriter Jim Sheridan (
My Left Foot) switches gears and sends the film into the realm of magic realism. Mary's father, Grandpa Ward