It is the 1890s in an Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Harold Cullen arranges for his two handsome Irish sons to meet two lovely Irish sisters. The two sisters are daughters of Harold's boyhood friend from his days of growing up in Dublin. The play opens with a dramatic event in 1896. Scene by scene we work our way back three years to 1893. We learn that however important destiny may appear; the journey of getting there is more magnetic. Nothing we say or do in life is small or thrown away. In fact, everything we say or do is gargantuan. But who of us grasps this fact of life as we laboriously move forward in time?