Robert Mountbellew, an English nobleman, returns to his Irish Estate in the west of Ireland in the summer of 1843 to spend a summer hunting and to gain closure to a dysfunctional relationship with his now deceased father.Mountbellew feels displaced, neither belonging to the upper or lower classes. Robert should be choosing a wife, but the life of an upper class English gent seems stifling and unrewarding to him.Robert's desire to belong leads him into Irish politics of the 1800's, and a love affair that his own class disapproves of. The summer of 1843 would liberate and confine Robert Mountbellew.
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