1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.

Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another’s sight, always on one another’s mind, yet rarely together. Forty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she’s ever really known while Pip, haunted by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them, perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives.

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in the little town of Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from his community. A visit from the doctor is always a sign of bad things to come. His youngest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed her chance at real love – and passed up an offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter’s lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever.

A man with an Irish accent appears at Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island, changing everything in an instant. Since leaving Brooklyn, Eilis and Tony have built a secure, contented life—a bit stifled by the in-laws close by, but solid after twenty years of marriage and with two children heading toward a bright future.

But the stranger’s arrival reveals a truth that makes Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years, she feels the distance from Ireland keenly, pulling her thoughts back across the ocean. The revelation compels her to consider a return to Ireland, to her mother, and to the people and places she once chose to leave.

Did she make the right choice marrying Tony all those years ago? And, now, is it too late to imagine a different life?

In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.

But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch…

February 1944. Rome is under Nazi occupation, its people living in fear. But in the shadows, a courageous resistance fights back. Among them is Contessa Giovana Landini, a key member of The Choir—a secret network dedicated to smuggling refugees and Allied soldiers to safety, all while evading the ruthless Gestapo commander, Paul Hauptmann.

Then, during a brutal morning air raid, a mysterious parachutist drops into the city and vanishes into its labyrinthine backstreets. Who is he—an ally, a spy, or something more sinister? As suspicion mounts, the fate of The Choir hangs in the balance, and the Contessa finds herself caught in a treacherous game with Hauptmann himself. His growing obsession with her threatens not only her mission but her life.