Evelyn

Nine-year-old Evelyn Doyle's (Sophie Vavasseur) mother has abandoned the family, leaving her out-of-work father Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) to raise Evelyn and her two brothers, Maurice (Hugh MacDonagh) and Dermot (Niall Beagan) on his own. Matters are only made worse when Desmond's mother-in-law (Claire Mullan) reports the abandonment of the children to the authorities. Irish law prohibits the children from being raised in a "broken home" and places the children in Church-run orphanages.

Vowing to reunite his family, he enlists the help of his friends; barmaid Bernadette Beattie (Julianna Margulies), her solicitor brother Michael (Stephen Rea), their American lawyer friend Nick (Aidan Quinn) and his old mentor, Thomas Connolly (Alan Bates). Together, the group attempt to do what has never been done before - challenge a law before the Irish Supreme Court.