The Secret of Roan Inish

“Between land and sea there is a place where myths are real.”

Her baby brother was washed out to sea years ago and never found, so when ten-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) spots a naked little boy on the abandoned island of Roan Inish, she cannot leave it alone. She lives with her grandparents in a Donegal fishing village, where she hears the old story of an ancestor who married a selkie, a seal that can shed its skin and walk as a woman. John Sayles treats the legend as family history, a story the grandparents tell and mean.