Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Mental hospital where she´s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure.Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, her story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland´s changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.