Cal
DramaThrillerRomancebased on novel or book1970sira (irish republican army)irelandguiltbelfast, north irelandolder woman younger man relationshipirish
A morally fraught romance between a young IRA sympathizer and a widow whose husband he may have helped kill, set against the sectarian violence of 1970s Northern Ireland.
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.
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