Twenty-seven-year-old Kara Larson is bogged down in the stress of
planning her elaborate wedding to a professional golfer. Still, to
fulfill the requirements of the Palmetto Pointe Junior Society, she
makes time in her busy schedule to visit an elderly woman at a nursing
home facility. Soon she finds herself mesmerized by the singsong Irish
lilt of ninety-six-year-old Maeve Mahoney as Maeve recounts the rambling
story of her first love back in Ireland. Or, Kara begins to wonder, is
she really retelling an ancient tale of myth and legend? Waiting for the
story to unfold in bits and pieces, and trying to discern the underlying
truth, Kara is drawn in - and driven to remember her own first love:
childhood neighbor Jack Sullivan. Gradually she realizes that before she
embarks on her new life, she must find out how her own story - with
Jack - will end....