![Jim Broadbent](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/p3wTEJ81NwFUxa4ignGxICHc1n2.jpg)
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.