We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.
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Anne Phelan as Mumma
Anna Hruby as Roie
Kaarin Fairfax as Dolour
Gwen Plumb as Grandma
Martyn Sanderson as Hughie Darcy
George Whaley Director
Eleanor Witcombe Writer
Ruth Park Writer
Anthony Buckley Producer
George Whaley Writer
Australia 11 May 1987
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