
It is 1845 and the situation in Ireland is dire. Hunger and typhus are killing people by the thousands. Through no fault of their own, Joseph and Grace Connelly find themselves and what is left of their seven children living a life they never could have imagined three years earlier...

The "potato famine" of 1840s Ireland was itself a sad and devastating slice of history. Continuum deals with two desperate families who left Ireland hoping to find a better life in Manchester England where they have some family support in the Salford slum. These good people...