Irish beauty Kathleen Flynn, barely reaching adulthood, goes to study in New York and then stays to work there. Only five years later she returns to her small town. She returns, having known success, having seen the world, but... devastated and exhausted, having lost her radiant beauty and youthful cheerfulness. Returns to his mother’s grave, to an abandoned house, to old friends who have changed beyond recognition. Particularly striking changes occurred with her ex-fiancé, the carpenter Ben, whom she betrayed and lost and whom she never stopped loving for a moment...