A doomed love set against the turmoil of the landless poor, the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the British Crown. A Yeats scholar earlier fails to acknowledge the question of a romantic relationship between Lady Gregory, a co-founder of the Irish Literary Revival, and W. B. Yeats, the Poet Laureate and Noble Prize Winner of Ireland. A love only suggested in the past is hurled into the present through the discovery of a series of paintings.