"Tony O'Neill is not having a good day. He is unemployed and broke, with a wife and child to support. Even worse, he's living with his snobbish mother-in-law. They don't get along. Bridie Feeney is mad. She's just had a fight with her son-in-law and daughter. Bitter words have been spoken. But she is not going to apologize. Dave Cummins needs a fix...bad. It's the worst day of his life. He knows he's going to do something he swore he'd never do. Sarah...

The old ways of rural Ireland in the 1940s are a thing of the past, but Tom Nestor recalls his boyhood weekly errands to the nearby town of Rath. Adventure, imagination, and colorful characters accompany him.