Since the Irish Famine of the 1850's, Ireland's history has been dominated by emigration, from a population of over nine million then to one of just under four million today, it is one of the largest migrations known to the modern world. The realities of the scattering, called the Diaspora, is at times harrowing with an immense number experiencing solitude, social dislocation, inadequacy and the see-sawing emotional pull of the country left behind. In a newly independent Ireland, of the 1960's, this trend continued. As a young nation work opportunities were extremely limited and every year hundreds of thousands of people were forced to emigrate to seek a better life. Through a lack of education and intense loneliness many of these people sought solace in alcohol. Today one in ten homeless people in London is Irish. This film is the story of one such emigrant. We trace Willie Walsh's life as it arcs from leaving his home in Connemara at the age of sixteen to his early years in London, his dissent into alcoholism and homelessness to his eventual recovery. His is a truly inspirational story, giving a human face to a horrible statistic.