Coming of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War II, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find a job in the miserable economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis to live and work in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.

Eilis takes up her new life in a crowded Brooklyn boarding house, working in a department store on

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Taking a nursing job in a small town after the end of World War II, Christina Tucker finds herself being romantically pursued by her employer's two sons and is targeted in a revenge plot by one of Dr. Barlow's former disgruntled patients.