Connections

Tommy Walsh in Ireland and Anna Novak in Pennsylvania are brought together online when documenting their respective family trees.

Anna’s great grandfather, Charles Novak, and his brother Leo fled from Poland to America in the late 1890s and settled in Philadelphia, experiencing contrasting lives and lifestyles.

While working together to research the lives of their immigrant relations in America over 100 years ago, Tommy and Anna uncover the attempted assassination of a bishop in Philadelphia in 1912, leading to evidence of a sexual assault, of deceit and neglect and the restoration of Leo Novak’s reputation.

These revelations had a devastating effect on both families but for very different reasons.

Will Tommy and Anna be able to continue to build their growing relationship despite those revelations or will the actions of their ancestors continue to reverberate?