Details
It’s 1984 and Ann, a pregnant teenager, awoke to realise that she was about to give birth, ending up in the Grotto of her local church. Shockingly two hours later, Ann and her baby would be dead. This story will shine a light into the last thirteen hours of her life, a girl alone abandoned by society. Based on a true story that shook the world.
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Trivia
Stars Eileen Walsh and Zara Devlin who also starred in Cillian Murphy’s 2024 “Small Things Like These”. Ian Beattie is a Northern Irish actor best known for his roles as Antigonus in Oliver Stone's film Alexander, and as Ser Meryn Trant in the HBO series, Game of Thrones.
Critics
...'Devlin has very little dialogue but conveys Ann’s sense of fear and isolation through body language.'
ScreenDaily
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Director's Statement
I began my journey with Ann Lovett in 2018. I remember the talk in our house and how people reacted to her death and that of her baby son Patrick. This was an amazing story of grit and determination and pure horror at the same time. She knew that her baby was coming. She hid it well from almost everyone. She brought a scissors and a page from her science book showing her how to cut the cord and bring new life into this world. She was not prepared. She was 15 years old. Her death and that of her baby Patrick was silenced the moment she passed, by her family and the town she was growing up in. This is an observational narrative drama that explores this true story of a young pregnant teenage girl, in 1980’s rural Ireland.
