We are Not Ourselves

Raised by hard-drinking parents in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, ambitious Eileen Tumulty craves a more stable existence. As she comes of age in the early Sixties, she falls for a young scientist named Edmund Leary. They marry and together begin to build the life Eileen has always dreamed of. But while Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won't give up teaching for a better-paid job. Almost inadvertently Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing...