Maria is a wife and mother in the beautiful, but very remote Connemara region of Ireland. When an old friend from Germany arrives in the place, her life is thrown into turmoil.
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Ellen ten Damme
Maria
Darragh Kelly
Antaine
Andreas Schmidt
Axel
Rosaleen Linehan
Aine
Garrett Keogh
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