Plot
Troubled young woman Abbey falls in love with her former professor, Dermot. The mismatched couple are very much in love, living in a small village in Ireland where the villagers disapprove of their relationship –but they remain content with their situation.
When Abbey suddenly gets pregnant and is considering keeping the baby, Dermot becomes irritated with her, angrily telling her that he made it clear he has no interest in being a father. Following the announcement of her pregnancy, Abbey returns to her childhood home in Montreal to visit her father. Meanwhile, Dermot is deeply upset by her absence and lack of communication, he resorts to drinking.
Eventually, dark secrets are revealed about the two individuals. Dermot doesn't want to be a father, as a previous pregnancy with a student ended with her killing herself after putting the baby up for adoption. The incident also cost him his teaching position at Trinity College Dublin. Abbey is unsure about being a mother, as her own mother ran off with a man to Costa Rica when Abbey was a child. She decides to have an abortion after learning, from a friend of her mother, that there was no lover, that her mother left because she hated being a mother to Abbey –a secret her father hid from her.
After the abortion, and back alley sex with a bartender she likes, Abbey returns to Ireland to be with Dermot.
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