A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador’s limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects….

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.