As liaison officer between the US Army Air Force base and the residents of Moybeg, Captain Dreyfuss has a hard task ahead. Land and homes held by families for years gone by have been forcibly removed from them to make way for the air base and, furthermore, a new generation from the progressive U.S is infiltrating the community, bringing very different cultural ways with them. Dreyfuss approaches the Coynes for help but, in meeting Rose, he finds a kindred spirit that threatens to cause more harm than the good he intended.
