Thomas and Eoin Joyce lose their family to The Great Hunger, Ireland’s potato famine which cost the country half its population: desperate times lead to desperate acts and they flee the country. Now, thirty years later, the crops are failing again. The Joyces join a growing band of natives determined to change things and they focus their efforts on Charles Boycott, agent for an absentee landlord and renowned for this arrogant and dismissive attitude to the locals. New times call for new methods leading to one of the seminal events of Irish history.