Big changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast. At first life seems
normal for Sammy and Maeve, two children from the opposing republican
and loyalist communities. Sammy tries to avoid trouble with his
unemployed father, while Maeve has lived with her aunt and uncle since
her mother's death.
When twins Dylan and Emma Goldman move from Washington to Belfast they
strike up friendships with Maeve and Sammy. Gradually the nationalist
girl and loyalist boy overcome their suspicions of each other, and all
four children become friends. But even as they have fun at local sports
clubs, attend the Goldman's barbeques, and secretly make their own radio
programmes, they can't ignore the trouble that is slowing gripping the
country. And when the simmering tensions in Northern Ireland erupt into
violence it threatens not just their friendships - but their very lives.