Shaken by the prospect of facing what her doctor called ‘a geriatric pregnancy’ at the ripe young age of only thirty-four, Dubliner Faye White begins to panic. Her boyfriend Jamie prides himself on his frugality … after all, Jamie had predicted the Irish property crash and economic recession years before anyone else, and had been saving accordingly to buy a house at a bargain basement price. Unfortunately for Faye, Jamie does not share her panic on the ‘geriatric’ pregnancy front, and wants them to hold off on marriage and kids for a few more years.
Danny and Sheila McLoughlin are an unhappily married couple living in Cork, contending with the breakdown of their relationship, spiralling debt, and emerging ill health and dementia of Danny's mother. Danny finds employment in Dublin, where he is forced to live in a grotty bedsit and commute to visit his teenage children in Cork at the weekends. No physical or emotionally fulfilling relationship exists between Sheila and Danny, despite their determination to maintain a front of togetherness for family and friends. A casual encounter with Faye at a cookery class changes a miserable Danny’s perspective on happiness considerably.
Meanwhile, Sheila has played the dutiful wife, mother and daughter-in-law for most of her adult life, forsaking her own ambition to pursue a career as an artist. Sheila finds that her creative self has dwindled to practical inexistence by the time she meets Calum Quinn - her mother-in-law's bohemian art therapist. Calum brings Sheila's artistic side back to life, along with some more substantive emotions that Sheila would rather not acknowledge. While painting her portrait, Calum finds himself increasingly intrigued with the auburn-haired beauty.
White lie follows white lie, but the truth soon catches up.
Danny and Sheila McLoughlin are an unhappily married couple living in Cork, contending with the breakdown of their relationship, spiralling debt, and emerging ill health and dementia of Danny's mother. Danny finds employment in Dublin, where he is forced to live in a grotty bedsit and commute to visit his teenage children in Cork at the weekends. No physical or emotionally fulfilling relationship exists between Sheila and Danny, despite their determination to maintain a front of togetherness for family and friends. A casual encounter with Faye at a cookery class changes a miserable Danny’s perspective on happiness considerably.
Meanwhile, Sheila has played the dutiful wife, mother and daughter-in-law for most of her adult life, forsaking her own ambition to pursue a career as an artist. Sheila finds that her creative self has dwindled to practical inexistence by the time she meets Calum Quinn - her mother-in-law's bohemian art therapist. Calum brings Sheila's artistic side back to life, along with some more substantive emotions that Sheila would rather not acknowledge. While painting her portrait, Calum finds himself increasingly intrigued with the auburn-haired beauty.
White lie follows white lie, but the truth soon catches up.
