It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them.

In NORA WEBSTER we see a family remade, a woman who, consumed by grief, is at times resilient, at times distant - who is unmoored yet who will be ultimately redefined by her love and her loss.