Synopsis
Widowed Lily lives on a smallholding in County Donegal and keeps to herself. But then two boys playing hide and seek find evidence of a horrifying secret in her hen house.
- Programme: ScreenPlay
- Series: 4
- Episode: 10: The Hen House
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1989
- English
Licence: ERA Licence required
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