In which the dawn finds Bertha restless and yearning in a dimly lit Dublin drawingroom, while intimacies and tensions brew quietly around Richard, Robert, and Beatrice, each entangled by unspoken truths and the shadows of past loves. As the murmur of the city awakens outside, love, doubt, and the ache of exile entwine with the fragile hopes and whispered farewells within these closely held rooms.