When his elderly, Mexican -
American landlady blackmails him into taking her with him, he is forced to confront his past and, ultimately, find hope in the future.
With her new life circumscribed by a kindly priest and mother - hen
landlady — Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters respectively providing awards - season pedigree — Brooklyn itself turns out to be something of an Irish colony, but night - classes and the romantic attentions of Emory Cohen's hard - working Italian -
American plumber, spark an appreciably developing self - confidence.