Brooklyn

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Ireland, 1952. The small town of Enniscorthy offers few prospects to Eilis Lacey, who lives with her mother and older sister Rose. When Rose arranges through their parish for Eilis to move to New York, the girl decides to go there in search of a better life in America. Eilis moves into a boarding house for girls, works in a luxury department store, takes night classes, meets a young Italian, and gradually begins to realize her dreams. But events upset her plans and sow doubt in her heart.

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