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Father Eoin O'Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antainem to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman. This appearance throws Eoin back to the cause of his breakdown in 1916. Eoin's influence on young Antaine echoes in Antaine's dark influence on altar boy Feidhlim.

A young American woman finds herself in Ireland after inheriting her Grandfathers land, deeply inhabited by his spirit. She has been offered to sell the property before crashing her car into a local Artist. As she settles in, she discovers she is also the owner of two black pigs, Diarmud and Grainne were she becomes acquainted with the poem "In the Valley of the Black Pig" by W.B Yeats. The potential buyer of her property intends on destroying sacred Oak Forests while digging for Ore deposits. She quickly finds herself in a fight of man versus corporation while her two black pigs possess an undeniable association with nature.