AN ATTACK OF HUNGER

From The New Yorker, January 6, 1962 P. 26

"Mrs. Derdon was a woman who felt she had much to put up with. Her son John had vanished into the commonest crevasse in Irish family life - the priesthood. If only her husband, Hubert, had died, she thought, John would never have left her...."

An intimate depiction of a wife's struggles with domestic and cultural expectations. Set in the 1950s. A 20 minute spec script based on the short story of the same title by Maeve Brennan.