 World War I seems far away from Ireland s Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father s pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan s pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin s advice? Is the pivotal role that of the village idiot who is mute?