sentences:  Self-taught, Laura enters a dance contest across the River Foyle in a Catholic district.The film ends as Laura teaches her father the first steps of the dance.Ruth Barton writes of the film's structure, "Symbolically, the film illustrates its theme of bridging divides – between father and daughter, Protestant and Catholic traditions, life and death – by the device of the boat Lexie (B. J. Hogg) pilots across the Foyle to and from his job, itself a mixed workplace.