Valentine Sweeney killed his mistress, American Evangeline Walter, and died while trying to evade arrest. His wife Cressida and son Gil were stigmatized. But time passes... and now Cressida is quite happy with her new husband, retired policeman Frank Recaldo. However, her happiness comes to an end when the matured Gil decides to find out at any cost whether his father is really a murderer, and goes to a small Irish town where a tragedy occurred ten years ago. Secrets of the past are revealed one after another. But perhaps some of them would be better off remaining secret...