In the 1950s, with job prospects bleak in her native Ireland, young Eilis (Saorise Ronan) is packed off by her folks across the ocean for a clerking opportunity in New York. She tentatively comes to deal with her homesickness, a new land, and the kind attentions of Italian-American plumber Tony (Emory Cohen)-but when a family tragedy requires Eilis to return home, she~s faced with wrenching choices between her old life and the one she has built. Evocative coming-of-age tale also stars Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent; Nick Hornby adapted the Colm T~ib~n novel for the screen. 111 min.