Un professeur d'âge moyen découvre d'anciennes photos de sa mère qui le convainquent qu'elle ne lui a pas dit la vérité sur son vrai père.
Voyageant en Irlande, où il pense que son vrai père a vécu, une romance passée se déroule petit à petit.
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles in school.