The band hopes for a big break after their promoter secures a chance to play on a pirate radio station operating from an old ship off the West Coast of Ireland, but a nightmare awaits...

It is now April 1968, and as the band's musical career starts to progress with many gigs, things take a turn for the worse when their lead singer Dessie comes under the spell of the Leannan Sidhe, the female fairy lover...

Fergal and the boys finally get their first gig but all is not what it seems at the mysterious dancehall.

In search of his first gig, Fergal visits the strange home of the music promoter, Bill Cawley.

Fergal gets a job as a petrol pump attendant in a rural station, and while practicing his guitar at night, meets a mysterious music promoter who stops off in his black limousine. It will be an encounter that transforms his fate.

After a decade in the Industrial School, Fergal and the lads finally get their freedom. Fergal goes back to his old house and spends a haunting night alone.

A mysterious young nun at the convent orphanage teaches Fergal and the lads how to play guitar...

Young Fergal escapes the dreaded Industrial School one fine night, only to end up trapped in a supernatural fairy field. But it is an experience that will influence his fate going forward.

As the local bishop, Bishop Nathy, arrives at the Industrial School (Orphanage), to inspect the children, one frail child hopes to win his freedom from the institution by playing the bishop a nice tune or two on his penny-whistle. But it has deadly consequences.

After the death of their uncle, Fergal and his siblings are taken in by the authorities. Fergal ends up in a harsh Industrial School, separated from his family, and run by some sadistic religious orders. But he makes some lifelong friends.