Drinking pals back in their youth, Joe and Davy meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Joe confides that he has left his wife and family for Jessica, who was the girl of Davy's dreams some four decades ago. As Joe's story unfolds across Dublin—pint after pint, pub after pub—so too do the memories of what drove Davy from Ireland. Here the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha offers a delightfully comic portrait of the many forms love can take throughout our lives.