In Terenure a pleasant suburb of Dublin it's snowing. Gina Moynihan girl about town recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life?" Sean Vallely. Gina remembers their affair: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now as the falling snow makes the day luminous and full of possibility Gina awaits the arrival of Sean's fragile twelve-year-old daughter - the complication and gravity of this second life.