 Success comes quickly, but the growing influence of Jimmy and his radical ideas are not to the taste of everyone in the village.The film centres around political tensions between the Catholic church, the state and the republican movement to which Jimmy through his pre-emigration history is connected.Jimmy's political alignment is central to the film, he suffers for being a free-thinker and committed to the liberation of ordinary people through education and also by having experience from America of jazz (the rhythms and passions of "darkest Africa" are warned against in one church sermon warning of the perils of the "Hall").