Dublin, nineteen-sixties. While London is swinging Dublin is lurching. A city in the cold grip of the church, beer, and drugs. Felix is comfortable there, escaped from England and university, until given the picture, the picture of Joanne that changes everything. She is the girl with the mystery, a figure of the night, keeping a secret that is too unspeakable to reveal, too strange to imagine. And Felix falls under the spell. A love that becomes an infatuation and then an obsession. A love that ultimately destroys lives, and itself.