A drama which charts several years in the young lives of four fallen women who were rejected by their families and abandoned to the mercy of the Catholic Church in 1960s Ireland. While womens liberation is sweeping the globe, these women are stripped of their liberty and dignity, and theyre condemned to indefinite sentences of servitude in The Magdalene Laundries in order to atone for their sins. The last Magdalene Asylum in Ireland closed in 1996, and only since has the true horror of conditions in these institutions begun to emerge.