By Rebecca Barlett.

A young couple on the move in Dublin buy a spacious apartment in a Georgian house. Such houses were originally built as splendid homes when Dublin was known as the second city of the British Empire. However, by the early 20th century, the British had moved on and the houses were sub-divided into cold, mean and disease-ridden tenements. Through a chance meeting the couple in this drama discover the history of their new home and learn of how a family was evicted from it after the father lost his job in the famous lock-out of 1913. When a moral crisis confronts the new owners, two points of history are brought into sharp contrast.
(R)