Plot

Based on a real women's occupation of Holy Cross Church in Kings Cross 1982. Blathnaid a young musician arrives in London. She makes friends with Nadina a street walker and neighbor. Jake a local cop's actions change everything.

Blathnaid a young Irish woman musician arrives in Kings Cross in London full of optimism. She meets Nadina a streetwalker and neighbor and Jake a bad local cop who harasses her on arrival. Her friendship with Nadina blossoms as does her job finding as a young fiddle player. But the course of Blathnaids life is changed when she finds Nadina deceased after she has gone missing, and she joins Susan and local activists in sheltering in a church for safety and fighting for change.—Maeve Murphy

Based on the killing of Kings Cross 22 year old sex worker Patsy Malone by a policeman in 1981 and the subsequent ECP women's occupation of Holy Cross Church in Kings Cross red light district in London in 1982 as a response to a rapidly deteriorating situation and escalating tensions with local woman and sex workers and the local police.

This multiple award winning short film based on these real events and also characters from Maeve Murphy's own novella "Christmas at the Cross" is told through the eyes of Blathnaid, a young pure hearted N.Irish woman musician who has just arrived in London full of dreams and ambitions for her future. She becomes friends with her neighbor who is a street walker and sex worker, Nadina who is streetwise and witty and also a champion ice skater. Both of them have a laugh together and share their news and are joined by a love of music. Jake a shut down cop off duty who frequently hovers round the ill lit back streets late at night and hassles both of them but particularly Nadina. Blathnaid and Nadina become lost to each other. Blathnaid searches for her. It;s like a fever dream as she searches for her and Jake seems in turmoil in a nearby street. He also seems to be searching for something and then spots Nadina. When Blathnaid manages to find her, the shock of what she sees, i.e Nadina lying dead face down in an alley, devastates her and changes her life forever. Blathnaid joins the women who have locked themselves in the church for sanctuary as well as to protest for safety and justice.