An aspiring writer and his lover leave Ireland to live together in Trieste and try to lead a life away from the constrictive social norms of County Galway. We follow their trials and tribulations as he discovers she's not the muse who can discuss literature (and particularly *his* writing) that he'd been hoping for, becomes jealous of the possibility that she is seeing other men, grows distant from her and their children (born out of wedlock), and ultimately forge a lasting and loving relationship... and somehow it's utterly boring.
The acting is fine, but the script is not. From the start, their relationship works on a physical level, but they don't really connect intellectually. By the end, it's not really clear how they've managed to become friends as well as lovers. Certainly nothing that happens on screen suggests it, until they are walking contentedly together down the lane while text appears to tell us they stayed together happily until they died.
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