Political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the countrys Red Scare of the 1930s.
1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. His widowed mother Alice is happy, Jimmys friends are happy, all the young people who enjoy dancing and singing are happy. Which is not the case of Father Sheridan, the local priest, nor of the village squire, nor of Dennis OKeefe, the chief of the fascists. The reason is simple: Jimmy is a socialist activist. So when the intruder reopens the village hall, thus enabling the villagers to gather to sing, dance, paint, study or box, they take a dim view of the whole thing. People who think and unite are difficult to manipulate, arent they? From that moment on they will use every means possible to get rid of Jimmy and his dangerous hall.
