Michael Sapieha

This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.

Full of liaisons, intrigues, treachery and adventure, Marguerite Volant is a sweeping historical epic set in New France (Canada) in 1763. This series centers around the extraordinary exploits of Marguerite, the passionate young heiress to the Volant estate. From the last days of the glorious summer before the arrival of the British, Marguerite lets no one crush her indomitable spirit.

Random Passage follows a courageous woman's journey from servitude in England to the harsh life of Outport Newfoundland. Along the way she endures many hardships, including attempted rape and being abandoned by the father of her child.