This haunting dreamscape of the Great Famine evokes the world of the vanishing tenant farmer population of Ireland through the eyes of its nine-year-old narrator, Una Mac Cormaic -- a visionary child who echoes the Hunger Spirit of Irish folklore. Una spies on the lives of those around her in an effort to hold onto their disappearing world. Nights, she trails the men of her village, who, hired to build a Road to Nowhere, dress as women and take vengeance on public officials. She witnesses the private agony of the priest who bullies the villagers into choosing Catholic martyrdom over the soup...

During their troupe's 160th stage production of The Great Irish Famine, the exhausted Ghost Actors of a long dead Irish tenant village find little inspiration in playing their too familiar characters in an inescapable tragedy. For the sake of Una Mac Cormaic, a visionary little girl who must make her stage debut, they begin to reject their old roles, in hope of a different outcome. Moving in a simple playing area divided into two, the Mac Cormaic Family Cottage, which sometimes doubles as the Farmer's and the Landlord's Dining Rooms, and the Imaginary World of Una Mac Cormaic, six actors...