It's the summer of 1981. Newly widowed Bessie Halstone is fleeing Belfast with her young son, Herkie. She's wrongly suspected of pocketing ?10,000, the loot from a heist carried out by Packie, her late (and unmourned) husband. Bessie has plans. She longs to make a fresh start. But first she must reach the safety of her sister's home, in County Sligo, to borrow money for the trip. She doesn't make it. Car trouble forces her to sojourn in Tailorstown,...