Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

A time of relative peace in Northern Ireland escalates to full-blown conflict. As a civil rights movement gains pace, demanding equal rights for Catholics, the Provisional IRA comes to the fore, causing the British Army to be deployed.

In 1972, community divisions deepen and intensify; many working-class Catholic and Protestant communities are in the grip of paramilitary organisations.

The impact of the IRA hunger strikes is seen through the eyes of three women -- an IRA prisoner's wife, a police officer's wife and a hunger striker's daughter.

Tensions rise as the police and army infiltrate paramilitary organisations to gain intelligence in the late 1980s.

There have been many false dawns in the conflict, but finally the desire for change propels the possibility of peace for the next generation. Following years of talks at a government level, paramilitary ceasefires are announced on both sides.