An insight into the life of Mrs. Redmond.
"I often said it I ever married I'd love to have a big family... and not have them go through all I went through, the loneliness especially."
Mrs. Redmond, wife of an Irish farmer, certainly kept her word. She has fourteen children, whose ages range from three to twenty-three.
They live in almost medieval self-sufficiency on a farm in county Wexford.
The action of the film takes place on the day when one of Mrs. Redmond's daughters, Gracie, aged eighteen, enters a convent.
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