SONGS FOR WHILE I’M AWAY is a feature documentary on the life and music of Phil Lynott, telling the story of how a young black boy from working class 1950's Dublin, became Ireland's greatest Rock Star.   As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman. Told extensively through the words of Phil himself and focusing on some of his iconic songs, the film gets to the heart of  Philip, the father, the husband, the friend, the son, the rock icon, the poet and the dreamer.

Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Coleman Sharkey has to abandon his family and flee to a remote island. When the famine engulfs his community and takes his wife and child, he is left with nothing but a solitary life. Coleman evades the law and fights starvation until he meets a girl named Kitty who helps him find a reason to live. Cuirtear coir i leith Coleman Sharkey, coir nach ndearna sé, agus caithfidh sé a theaghlach a thréigean agus cur faoi ar oileáinín iargúlta. Déanann an gorta slad ar an bpobal, sciobann uaidh a bhean agus a pháiste agus níl aige sa saol ach an t-uaigneas agus é ar a theitheadh ó fhórsaí an dlí, ag iarraidh gan bás a fháil den ocras. Buaileann sé le cailín darb ainm Cití a thugann cúis dó a bheith beo.