Trespasses explores cross-community forbidden love, not across the barricades but across the bar.
The story sees Lola Petticrew’s Cushla, a 24-year-old Catholic school teacher pulling extra shifts in her family’s pub, which serves the soldiers from a nearby barracks and other locals.
It’s there she meets the upper-middle class Protestant barrister Michael Agnew, who has dedicated himself to representing a young Catholic man.
While their relationship is at the story’s heart, it also has a lot to say about the conflict here and its impact on people.
The seriousness of that is not lost on Lola Petticrew.
“I take that responsibility really, really seriously,” they said.
“I love home so much and I care about people at home so much and I want them to feel like their lives are being taken seriously and reflected with love and care and reverence.
“So it feels like a massive responsibility, but it’s also a complete privilege. And if I only got to tell Irish stories for the rest of my life, I’d take it.
“I just want people to watch it and get from it what they need to get from it. I trust in the work that we’ve made. “
