There is a rock road road leading out of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is where a thatch-roofed cottage was home to Owen Boden's beloved great-grandmother. In the 1930s, Owen leaves Belfast behind for a new life in New York. On the passage he meets a beautiful and proper Irish girl. Clinging together in their new country, they marry and settle in New York to raise a family. But all throughout Owen's life in his adopted homeland, the farm on the Rock Road remains an icon representing tranquility and simplicity. Throughout his marriage and his new family life, Owen often thinks of the idyllic old farmhouse; he never forgets the peaceful times there with his grandmother. And for his three daughters - Kathleen, the Celtic scholar, Toni, the glamorous actress, and Eileen, the caregiver - it is a place of pure imagination.