Six year-old Eamonn accuses his father of sexual abuse, but did it really happen? The true tale of an unhappy Irish childhood.
Eamonn remembers his parents, Liz and Martin, fighting constantly. When he is six, though, things take a drastic turn: his parents divorce and his mother falls under the influence of Dan, a frightening and sadistic man. Over the ensuing years Eamonn is beaten, humiliated, locked up and made to work like a slave by his mother and Dan.
Throughout this time he is also coached into fabricating The Story – heinous allegations, set out in horrendous detail, that his father had raped him repeatedly from an early age. At first Eamonn refuses to accuse his father, but by means of twisted mind-games, his mother convinces the boy that Martin had indeed abused him. Meanwhile, Liz drags the case through the courts in an attempt to have Martin jailed. Martin eventually flees to England and loses all contact with his son.
As conditions at home worsen, the boy makes a break for freedom, and a cat-and-mouse game ensues involving Eamonn, his mother and Dan, neighbours, the police and the courts. But will the one person who can save Eamonn, his father, ever re-appear? And how would Eamonn react if he did?
This true tale, poignant yet hopeful, is told by Eamonn himself.