A story of family secrets buried deep in the hills of County Wicklow.
Catherine is seventeen, the eldest daughter of a sheep farmer, fatally infatuated with her well-to-do cousin Simon studying to be a doctor in Dublin. The television in the corner bleets on and on about the Kerry Babies murder investigations, but Catherine dares not admit to the bulge in her belly. She dreams of a different life when she will escape to Dublin to live happily ever after - but only makes it as far as the old schoolhouse under the avalanche hill, to stay with the forbidding Granny Gertrude. There, family tensions thaw and old secrets come tumbling out. This is a family saga aout three generations of women... and the men in their lives.