A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence. For our young protagonists the world will never be the same again.

On Easter Monday a few hundred rebels launch their attack taking the authorities and holidaying Dubliners by surprise. Lover is pitted against lover, friend against friend and brother against brother as the rebellion takes hold.

Reinforcements fail to arrive and the rebels are forced to surrender to the greater might of the British Empire, jeered at by the enraged population of Dublin. As the rebels await their fate the executions begin.