Deirdre Lynch moved to America from Derry, Northern Ireland after an early tumultuous life in the notorious Irish Republican Army and two days after a terrorist’s bomb killed seven, including four British soldiers. While the young men who planted the bomb were arrested and convicted, a young woman accomplice was never found. According to the locals she “sloped off” (or disappeared).

     That was 40 years ago. Deirdre settled into American respectability, married a Derry immigrant and raised a family. While her children were aware of their mother’s anti-British sentiments and youthful IRA sympathies, they viewed her political musings as nostalgic bravado. But her daughter Erin entered the US military after 9/11 and was wounded in Iraq—while her mates were killed—by a terrorist’s hidden bomb. After her discharge, Erin took a trip to her parent’s Derry neighborhood, strictly to discover her roots. But old timers who remembered the fearsome Deirdre were convinced that she was the missing killer.

     Now the family patriarch is dying and the siblings reconnoiter at their parents’ home. With her new-found information, Erin will confront her mother with the shattering facts.