A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublins most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couples impossible love, and Albert
a woman who pretends to be a man to survive. Nineteenth century Ireland: for a woman to be independent and single, she must deceive everyone by pretending to be a man. Albert, a shy butler who keeps to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years he is a woman who has had to behave as a man all her life in order to escape a life of poverty and loneliness. When a handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerve to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks shes found a companion but Helens eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy-man. As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time
Stars Glenn Close.
