A father’s fervent love for his children drives this true story of Desmond Doyle, an unemployed Irishman whose wife walks out on him and their three children and travels halfway around the world with another man. When his mother-in-law informs the state of Doyle’s financial circumstances, the Irish court takes his children from him and places them in Catholic orphanages until he can find gainful employment, or so the court says. When Doyle gets back on his feet, he finds that the state will not return his children to him without the consent of their mother, the whereabouts of whom no one seems to know. He solicits help from several sympathetic lawyers, including an expert in family law, who take his case to the Irish Supreme Court in a landmark case that seeks to affirm a father’s fundamental right to the company of his children. Pierce Brosnan delivers a heart-wrenching performance as a father whose children mean the world to him. Sophie Vavasseur’s fresh, forthright, and sincere portrayal of Doyle’s daughter, Evelyn, whose love and need for her father is obvious, gives the film its unabashed moral conscience.