In 1973 on the west coast of Ireland, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from? Ambrose, a local fisherman, is far more interested in who he will become and with a curious community looking on, takes the baby home and adopts him. But for Declan, Ambrose’s young son, this arrival is surely bad news. Rivalries can be decades in the making, and families are easy to break.
