The Hunger Times (2018)

Niamh and Jayden from Frederick Douglas middle school are on a field trip to Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, when they are reluctantly paired up and sent off by their teacher to find artifacts in the museum's collection that represent the Irish famine. Grudgingly, with clipboards in hand, they find themselves alone in a strange room - empty but for a single haunting sculpture. Suddenly the mysterious "Curator" appears, she brings them on an expedition back in time to witness the famine first hand. Their trip begins in the workhouse in 1848 where they meet Patrick, a young famine victim, starving and apparently close to death. Eager to find out why Patrick has ended up in such a horrible place, the curator takes the children back to 1847, where they discover that Patrick and his family where evicted by an cruel landlord. They journey further back in time to 1845, where they meet Frederick Douglas, just as the first signs of blight occur on Patrick's family farm in Cork. The children's journey ends in the United States in 1852, where they hope they will find Patrick as he begins a new life. On each leg of their journey through time, they witness an event that has a remarkable likeness to an images in the "Curators" museum. As they come to the end of the journey they realize that the Irish Famine still resonates today.