It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new householdwhere everything is so well tended toand this summer must soon come to an end.