Location
The story is set in the Oliver family Mill and family home in Killfinane, Ireland. The property is located closely outside the main township with direct road access to the train station, shops, services and major infrastructure. The nearby seaside township has a tourist industry providing hotels, restaurants and other tourist interests.

Relationships
Evangeline and Ashley are blood relatives; first cousins. They marry when Evangeline is two months pregnant with their first son, Richard. The relationships between Evangeline and Ashley is strained when Ashley leaves for the First World War, leaving Evangeline to fend off the Irish Army from her home and her son.

Evangeline and Alice (Ashley's mother and Evangeline's Aunt) are not close, yet Alice involves herslef for the sake of the family business, Ashley and her grandson (nephew). Evangeline and Richard are distant, as Richard is farmed off to boarding school, then eventually the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders (The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland). Evangeline and Alice come together, after the death of Ashley. His extensive injuries from Mustard Gas poisoning end his pain.

On Stage
This two act play is written around the dinning room’s exposed hand-turned timber floorboards giving off its own voice of grandeur. An eight-seater solid timber dinning table and wooden chairs with a criss-cross open back pattern and padded cloth cushions are centre-pieced. The table is adorned with a silver tea set, silver candelabra, and a silver fruit bowl – with fresh fruit.

Against a wall sits a tall, solid timber Grandfather clock with gold trim and the makers’ mark insignia clearly labelled on the clocks’ face. An elegant sideboard with oval shaped mirror sits against an adjoining wall. It is ornamented with many silver serving instruments and its exquisite craftsman built engraved four wooden doors, gives it much grace. Along the same wall hangs a painting by Percy French, and next to that is a four-paneled window, decorated with heavy red drapes, hanging down to the floor, with a view of Oliver’s Folly on a hilly peak. Its elegant brass curtain rod presents the window decoration.

An upright piano sits patiently, adorned by a folded baby blanket on top of the lid. The piano reflects the flames from the magnificent inbuilt fireplace that warms the entire dinning room, decorated by a majestic mantle made from solid timber. Some personal trinkets sit upon it; a framed photo of her elderly father Richard Oliver Snr and a framed photo of her ten year old son, Richard Oliver Jnr. Above the mantle hang few family photos. During the colder months, often the dining room is warm with a draft that reminds them of Ireland’s bitter seasons.