When Emer Daly saves Jack Madigan from drowning it seems that the two children will be friends for life.
With their young lives in turmoil, what will come first - friendship, family or loyalty to a cause?.
Eight months later, however, they are on opposite sides in a life and death struggle, when Dublin city is torn apart in the Easter Rising.
When Emer Daly saves Jack Madigan from drowning it seems that the two children will be friends for life