Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy hardly sees Joe for a pint anymore--only when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy's father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that will lead the two on a bender back to the haunts of their youth. Joe left his wife and family a year earlier for another woman, Jessica. Davy knows her too--she was the girl of their dreams four decades earlier, the girl with the cello in George's pub. As Joe's story unfolds across Dublin--pint after pint, pub after pub--so too do the memories of what eventually drove Davy from Ireland: the upheaval that Faye, his feisty, profane wife, would bring into his life; his father's somber disapproval and the pained spaces left behind when a parent dies.