A Bird Named Enza

Jack Sullivan is willing to work hard for a better life than typically afforded to an Irish-American in 1917. He meets Maureen Valentine from uptown at a party. Against the advice of his family, he pursues her. They fall in love and secretly plan to marry, but Fiona, Maureen’s mother, sees Jack as an interloper, a crude intrusion on her plans for Maureen to marry into a higher class.