As happy as a turkey on Boxing Day -- When a child is born -- Changing times -- Stardust in your eyes -- Fortune in Men's eyes -- I know when I'm not wanted -- Personal call -- Lost sheep -- Waiting game -- Pack up your troubles -- Reckoning -- Amongst friends.

Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Peter Clifford struggles to save his parishioners' souls without falling himself ... for the local barkeep, Assumpta Fitzgerald.

Follows the struggle between a father and son over thirty years, from the father's release from a labor camp after Mao Zedong's death, to the son's adult life and marriage.