We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.
Martyn Sanderson was born on February 24, 1938 and passed away 15 years ago at the age of 71 on October 14, 2009.