A bereaved American filmmaker and her Irish assistant travel the west of Ireland on a research assignment for a film about Granuaile, the legendary rebel and 16th century "pirate queen". An uneasy intimacy is established between the two women during their journey to a remote Atlantic island, where the boundaries between past and present, myth and history, dream and reality become porous... The Cry of Granuaile confirms our already well-known Dónal Foreman (The Image You Missed, a very particular homage to the life and work of the director's absent father, Arthur MacCaig, an American documentary filmmaker, was screened at the first edition of Europa 61) as one of the most imaginative and talented filmmakers emerging on the other side of the channel.