Holy Cross is a Northern Irish drama television film, directed by Mark Brozel and written by Terry Cafolla, and starring Zara Turner and Bronagh Gallagher.

Sarah Norton is a single mother trying to raise her daughter, Karen to show respect to others, despite their religious background, but finds it difficult to maintain a normal life with the hatred and rivalry between Catholics and Protestants.

Ann McClure, is a mother of three, and married to Gerry, a former ex-member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who served time in prison.

When a resident of the Ardoyne estate is driving by in his car, he becomes angry with a group of men putting up a Loyalist paramilitary flag and orders them to take it down; when they refuse, the man reverses into them and a fight erupts between Catholics and Protestants.

The Catholic children, alongside their mothers, are granted access to walk down one side of the road, while fathers aren't permitted due to the accusations that they are "Provies", a decision that Gerry does not agree with.

Upon discovering that her youngest daughter has wet the bed, and the impact the events have left on she and her family, Ann breaks down in tears, while Sarah becomes distraught, fearing that Karen will hate her of her recent behaviour.

[3] Executive Producer, Robert Cooper made clear that the depiction of events which took place in the film would not be a reenactment of what actually occurred in real life.

Produce, Jonathan Curling explained "many residences on both sides of the divide had been left with a lasting suspicion of the media and were initially reluctant to talk to the programme-makers.

The main difficulty was to try and convince the people involved that they were trying to be true to the stories and not coming to it with an agenda, and in Northern Ireland that's very hard.

"[23] Belfast-born actress, Zara Turner was cast as Ann McClure, a Catholic mother of three, struggling with day-to-day live in the Ardoyne, and is desperate to protect her children from the violent protests.

Turner stated that "I think it's a very delicate thing to deal with because You're talking about people who still live in those situations", and "when it was actually happening, you saw two or three minutes of horror on the news and the film tries to look at what was going on behind those pictures."

Although brought up Catholic, in what she described as "a very aggressive, army-controlled environment", Gallagher had no problem with playing a Protestant as she said that "it is as important to tell another story as my own".

Father Aidan Troy of the Holy Cross Monastery, who braved the mob of protesters to lead a group of children to the school gates was outraged and commented that "It is just too raw ...