The failure of the Irish rebellion in 1641 forced thousands of Irish
rebels into exile. Their wives and children were left destitute with
little or no means of survival. Thousands of these women and children
were, on the instruction of Oliver Cromwell, forcibly sold into slavery
to the English colonies in the Caribbean. No one knows what became of
these enslaved women and children. They have largely been written out of
history. Reach of Time attempts to fictionally reconstruct the life of
one of these women, whose powerful resolve to see her country free of
tyranny commits herself, body and spirit, to bring honour and freedom to
all of Ireland's forgotten women.