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.

英国の小さな田舎町に暮らすロージーとアレックスは幼なじみの大親友。青春時代をずっと一緒に過ごしてきた２人は、どんなに恥ずかしいことでも遠慮なく言い合える関係。ところが、好きという言葉だけはどうしても言えなかった。そんな２人の夢は、米国ボストンの大学に一緒に進学すること。そして２人ともみごと合格し、夢に大きく前進した矢先、ロージーはクラスの人気者との一度のセックスで妊娠してしまう。進学を諦め、地元に残って子育てをする決断をしたロージーと、ひとりボストンへと旅立つアレックス。再会を誓い合い、離ればなれになっても連絡だけは取り合う２人だったが…。