![]() ![]() One thing all survivors had in common, is that none of them would ever forget. Very few women were able to go on and lead relatively normal lives, and others, such as Lorna, were even less fortunate in their fate. ![]() When it finally closed its doors, a score of survivors were left suffering in its wake. The Convent was home Magdalene Laundries, a place where women were taken when they fell afoul of the social mores of their times – from those accused of committing adultery to teenage pregnancies. That’s because Lorna has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking, understood to have manifested around the time she was ripped from her life at the age of 15 and incarcerated in the Kilkinure Convent. Chillingly, Lorna has no idea who the dead woman is or if she herself might be responsible for the apparent murder. Lorna Brady (Wilson) is a woman from the small, fictional town of Kilkinure, who wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house. This soon-to-be-released drama, starring The Affair‘s Ruth Wilson will examine the legacy of one of Ireland’s most shocking scandals – the inhumane institutions known as ‘The Magdalene Laundries’. ![]()
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