A recently orphaned 17-year-old girl (Theresa and Anne Marie Duff) becomes pregnant in 1963 rural Ireland, and is sent to a convent known as the Magdalen Laundry with other girls who have violated the country's strict moral code. Kitty: Bronagh Gallagher. Sister Bernadette: Tina Kellegher. Brida: Ealine Symons. Frank: John Kavanagh.