The inspirational story of two sisters who face their own mortality. Sixty-year-old Shirley sets out on an epic journey to row 3,000 miles unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean while her sister, Evelyn, battles a rare incurable cancer back home in Northern Ireland.

If Shirley succeeds she'll be the oldest woman - and first Irish woman - to row solo across an ocean.
In this story of perseverance and the power of the human spirit, Shirley and Evelyn must confront extreme mental and physical challenges in the name of survival.

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