A retrospective of the Sixties tucked inside a gentle love story unfolds on Ireland's Puffin Island. Paula is a free spirited, independent bohemian from Colorado. Tom is a straight-laced, pressed-suit Catholic conservative from Dublin. Is there a place on Earth the two can just be... and be together? Paula recounts her youth as a globetrotting vagabond following the 'Summer of Love.' After her chance encounter with a self-proclaimed hot-blooded Irishman, she and Tom wrestle with the choices faced by all young people who came of age during the turbulent Sixties. Tom vehemently defends his...

21st Century "blended family" dynamics clash with Old World traditions. Irish Catholic Thomas and bohemian Paula from Colorado fall in love on Ireland's Puffin Island in the summer of 1968. Four decades later, they strive to rekindle their romance and create the family lost to them when they parted in the Sixties. Thomas is determined to produced the ideal blended family. He insists the Koyles join the O'Connells for Christmas in Dublin, 2008. When his five adult offspring encounter Paula's two, tempers flare, claws protract, sparks fly and new alliances are born as the children jockey for...

A blended American/Irish family struggles with divided loyalties in a time of crisis. Bohemian Paula from Colorado and Irish Catholic Thomas, newly engaged after forty years of separation and one marriage for each, try to prevent two of their seven adult children from establishing a relationship beyond stepsiblings. Thomas goes so far as to forbid their alliance. Both thirty years old, Paula's daughter Kiri and Thomas' son Michael vow on the sly to chart their own course by the Celtic compass his father gave her. While on a secret assignment for his news agency, TV reporter Michael disappears...

Two American/Irish couples, separated by a generation but bound by blood, forge a tenuous truce until the tragic end of one plunges the other into turmoil. Bohemian Paula from Colorado and Irish Catholic Thomas, husband and wife of three years after four decades of separation and one marriage for each, struggle to hold their blended family together during desperate times. Paula's daughter Kiri and Thomas' son Michael, also married for three years contrary to the family's wishes, strive to create their own home and traditions. Resigned to their union, Thomas anxiously awaits the birth of a...

Antagonistic members of an American/Irish blended family seek pathways to reconciliation following tragedy. After the tragic death of favorite son Michael O'Connell, his young widow Kiri dedicates her life to fulfilling the pledges she made to him as he lay dying in the Syrian desert--to nurture their neighborhood in Dublin; to provide safety, love and joy for his nieces and nephews; to fold friends into their family; and to bear and raise his children as the two of them dreamed they would do together. Irish Catholic patriarch Thomas opposes his daughter-in-law's controversial actions until...