1950s. Young Eilis lives in an Irish town where life is boring, predictable and at the same time incredibly cozy. Eilis is not eager to go anywhere, she is happy with her usual life, happy with her family in her beloved old home. But one day she gets an opportunity to change her life. To leave for a completely different world, to a distant and almost mythical country, from where no one returns and from where only news reaches about the amazing life of those who left. Eilis does not want to leave her mother, sister, home, but they do not refuse this opportunity. A good job awaits her there, housing has already been looked for... And the girl from the Irish wilderness finds herself in the never-quiet New York Brooklyn, with its luxurious department stores, wide streets, sparkling cars. Eilis is homesick, sad from loneliness, but time passes, and gradually she gets used to Brooklyn, becomes part of it, and now she already belongs in America, she has already grabbed her bird of happiness. Until an event occurs that forces her to return to Ireland... An amazingly subtle, full of bewitching light and melancholic sadness and joy, a novel about life at the junction of two worlds and two eras. The novel is about choice and self-discovery, about doubts and overcoming them, about longing for the past and anticipation of the future. A meditative description of the life of an ordinary Irish girl who moved to America, her melancholy, sadness, and connections. This is a quiet melodrama about the fact that life is not a kaleidoscope of fire, but a routine string of small tragedies with momentary flashes of happiness.