Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.
A high-spirited American girl, Isabel Archer, arrives at the English manor, Gardencourt, where she attracts the passions of a British aristocrat, a brash American, and the secret adoration of her invalid cousin.