The Quiet Girl

Set in rural Ireland in 1981, this is the story of a quiet, neglected 9 year old girl Cait, who is sent away from her overcrowded dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her, but she blossoms in the care of her foster parents, a middle-aged couple Sean and Eibhlin Cinnsealach, distant relatives of her mother, who she has never met before, and discovers a new way of living. However, in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.