The story of Frieda, a young girl growing up in strife-torn late 1960's Derry, and her attempts to have a normal adolescence despite the violence which surrounds her.
Stephen Burke's debut film focuses on the period in and after 1968's Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland. This story is told form the wry perspective of an illegitimate teenage girl who observes her Catholic mother's increasing involvement in the struggle, while commenting on her Protestant father's refusal to assume responsibility for the sexual alliance that produced her.—Anonymous