Yesterday's Children(2000) Apr 2026

Based on the true story of Jenny Cockell, the movie (2000) follows an American woman named Jenny Cole who begins experiencing vivid, haunting dreams of a different life in 1930s Ireland. The Vision of Mary Sutton

Driven by a need for peace and the feeling that Mary’s children were left abandoned after her death in childbirth, Jenny travels to Ireland with her family. She discovers that: Yesterday's Children(2000)

Jenny, a happily married architect and mother living in Pennsylvania, starts seeing through the eyes of , an Irish woman living in poverty in the village of Malahide. The dreams reveal a difficult life where Mary struggled to protect her four children from an abusive, alcoholic husband. Based on the true story of Jenny Cockell,

: The village perfectly matches her childhood drawings and adult dreams. The dreams reveal a difficult life where Mary

: Jenny eventually tracks down Mary's surviving children, who are now in their 70s while Jenny is only in her 40s. Resolution

: She died in 1932 at the age of 37, leaving behind a "large brood" of children.

As Jenny’s own pregnancy progresses, these "memories" intensify until she is able to draw a detailed, accurate map of a town she has never visited. The Journey to Ireland