The evening is fine.
As the seasons pass, long-buried family secrets threaten to emerge..
When Deegan finds a gun dog and gives it as a present to his only daughter, his wife is filled with foreboding at this seeming act of kindness.
Claire Keegan's mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor Deegan, with his 'three teenagers, the milking and the mortgage'.
This dog will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it.
She watches the dog licking the bowl clean.
In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord.
The evening is fine