"It's summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys were said to own half the town; he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt-out cinema. But Mrs Connulty's daughter, liberated at last by the death of her imperious mother, resolves to keep an eye on Florian Kilderry, and it's she who comes a witness to the events that follow." "A few miles out in the country, Dillahan, a farmer and decent man, continues to live with the knowledge that he was accidentally responsible for the deaths of his wife and baby. He has married again: Ellie is the young convent girl who came to work with him when he was widowed. She falls in with Florian Kilderry and, although he is planning to leave Ireland and begin all over again after what he considers to be a failed life, a dangerously reckless attachement develops between them." "In a characteristically masterful way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations in an Irish town during one long summer."--Jacket.