In Kilgallan on Ireland’s coast, the fights in Donovan’s Bar are happy, the songs are sad and the days are as rich as slow-poured peaty beer.  But then things happen – first to the children…Mikey Boyle’s auntie strips off all her clothes, removes his and persuades him into the river.  Then Mike O’Hara ties a cord around sixteen year old Marie Lally’s neck and raises her nightgown…Isolated village tragedies. Short eruptions of horror.  But in the heart of nearby hill, something turns in its sleep.  It breathes and it wakes…