He offers her money for an abortion in England. Nan becomes pregnant and tells Simon, sure he will marry her but Simon says he must marry for money to maintain the family estate. Benny notices funds are missing and suspects Sean is involved but lacks proof.Įve's cottage serves as a party location for the women. When Benny's father dies, she suspends studies to care for her devastated mother and run the family shop. While Benny resists sex with Jack, Nan does not with Simon, believing he truly loves her. After the College Ball, they begin a relationship, Eve dates Aidan, a friend of Jack's, and Nan becomes involved with the older Simon Westward, heir to the estate. Benny falls for Jack Foley, a handsome rugby player and doctor's son studying medicine, though he is not convinced of this career. In Dublin, the two girls reconnect with a mature, sophisticated Nan who is aware of her beauty. They wish her to marry the creepy Sean Walsh, her father's employee, to secure the business's future. She boards at a Dublin convent, while Benny commutes between home and Dublin, her parents being loath to lose her.
She has also been granted one of their estate cottages. Eight years later, Nan has moved to Dublin, and Benny and Eve have graduated from convent school and are heading to Dublin and university.Įve's education is financed by the local landowning Westward Protestant family, who employed her father before his death.
They grow up in the small town of Knockglen. They are characterised during their First Communion: Benny is the beloved and well-fed only child of a tailor with a shop, Eve is the orphan reared by nuns and Nan is destined to be defined by her beauty. Set in 1950s Ireland, the film relates the experiences of Bernadette "Benny" Hogan and her friends: Eve Malone and Nan Mahon.
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