Neil Jordan draws from his Guardian Fiction Prize winning debut short story collection Night in Tunisia (1976) to tell this seaside-town set story of a teenage saxophone player (Niall Byrne) who develops an attachment to an older American actress (Beverly D’Angelo). She initially appears to reciprocate but then suddenly withdraws. In his confusion, the young man has his friend Rose (Lorraine Pilkington) to lean on and an increasingly empathetic relationship with his musician father (Donal McCann).
