A dark comedy

2w, 2m, 1 adaptable

Patrick McDonough arrives in Ireland from NYC on the run from the law. He brings his reluctant but faithful paramour, Marion Fein, who simply can’t see a place for herself in this land, except for the fact that she’s a passionate Joycean. Patrick may have been an innocent pawn—with a facility for numbers—in a stockholder scam. But his ex-bosses claim that he’s responsible for the missing millions. Patrick intends to hide out temporarily with his twin cousins, Rory and Deirdre whom he last saw when they were all eight years old. That was three decades ago when Patrick spent a summer on his aunt and uncle’s impoverished pig farm. But the cousins have become master scammers in their own right. Through a variety of schemes—legal and otherwise—they’ve amassed a handsome nest egg and the formerly affluent Americans find themselves beholden to the street-wise pair. When a mysterious stranger starts to trail Patrick and pretty Marion, he contemplates giving himself up. But she’s developed a fierce identification with Joyce’s Molly Bloom and with it, a bizarre poetic language. Her loopy Joycean poeticisms hold the intruder at bay. Patrick returns to America to turn state’s evidence. But his troubles expand since mystical Marion is left behind with the dangerously attractive twins.