The Spirit of ’45

Daniel Blake, 59 years old, worked as a joiner in Newcastle, England. After suffering heart disease he applies for sickness benefit. He meets single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless person’s hostel in London is to accept a flat in a city 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy in modern-day Britain.

Life is slipping through the fingers of Eric, the postman. His family life is chaotic, and his adopted children are not much help. But it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved 30 years ago? Despite the efforts and good intentions of his soccer teammates to support him emotionally, Eric continues to sink.

Ireland 1920: workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless ?Black and Tan? squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland?s bid for independence. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy, in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom