In 1918 Dublin, a nurse tends to expectant mothers quarantined with influenza in an understaffed maternity ward, confronting pandemic deaths and new life amid war.
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In 1918 Dublin, a nurse tends to expectant mothers quarantined with influenza in an understaffed maternity ward, confronting pandemic deaths and new life amid war.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police , and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ...
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Emotional and romantic bond develops between two central female characters.
Unflinching graphic detail of difficult childbirths, maternal and infant deaths, flu victims.
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Central emotional relationship between two women forms core of the narrative.
Brief historical context in Catholic Ireland with minor ritual references.
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References to Irish rebellion, war, government public health measures and authority.
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Depictions of domestic violence, sexual abuse survivors, systemic hospital cruelty and trauma.
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