Crossing

The crossing is a powerful and haunting love story of surprising discovery set in manhattan's hell's kitchen during prohibition.Its mission seeks to reconcile love and guilt, grief and promise.Set apart from other stories, it combines history, fact, surrealism, and reality into an ever-recycling boost of the human spirit. Irish-born johnny flynn, a former british soldier, is banished from his homeland and sent to america on a ship so riddled with disease that he realizes the voyage was meant to murder him.When he survives the trip, the captain forces him to walk the plank into the hudson river.Miraculously, johnny is rescued by a rumrunning irish gang, the swamp angels, and given a job running whisky in hell's kitchen just as prohibition makes liquor a hugely profitable, dangerous business. Fighting for his life and livelihood amid the denizens of the manhattan piers, johnny is plagued by the memory of his lost lover, nora, whose father, the famed irish revolutionary, james connolly, met his death through a firing squad that included a reluctant gunman named johnny flynn.Nora's last words to him, when she learned of his betrayal and left him, i love you, johnny flynn , echo in his heart, leaving him pulsing with guilt, yearning, and the hope that she might yet forgive him. Johnny drinks hard. One night, drunk on the floor of hailey's speakeasy, he encounters a seeming apparition on stage, the ghostly esme, an irish singer who suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of t...

The crossing is a powerful and haunting love story of surprising discovery set in manhattan's hell's kitchen during prohibition.Its mission seeks to reconcile love and