Róisín O'Donovan

In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers — is unable to maintain Susi, a ballerina reduced to teaching dance to overweight women, and Lucilla, their quiet and imaginative six-year- old daughter who suffers from severe bronchial asthma. They are helped economically by Pierpaolo, Luca’s seventeen-year-old son from a previous relationship. Pierpaolo lives in an Art Nouveau house with his mother and grandfather, an important trial lawyer of cases linked to politics who rakes in several million euros a year. In the setting of a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, both a good mother and a bad one, Mary Ann, a deeply Catholic student of art history from Ireland, au pair for the little Lucilla, is caught in the middle.

Jenna and Charlie found love in Ireland but their dreams drove them apart. Five years later, they reunite and Jenna has to decide where her heart belongs—back home or in the Emerald Isle.

Rosie y Alex son los mejores amigos del mundo y viven en Dublín. Desde su infancia, habían confiado el uno en el otro y se habían contado sus secretos y confidencias. En su época del instituto, los dos hicieron planes para ir juntos a la universidad, pero Rosie, en una noche de pasión junto a uno de los chicos más populares del instituto, se queda embarazada. Y justo cuando se lo va a contar a Alex, éste le dice que le han admitido en Harvard en la facultad de medicina.