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On a May night in rural Sligo, the young bride Mary Bruin feels trapped in her husband’s family home and in the prospect of a life consumed by housework, childbirth and age. A faery child enters from the forest, singing of a country untouched by time and inviting Mary to leave the mortal world. Shawn’s love, a priest’s counsel and the warmth of the household struggle to hold her, but the promise of immortal freedom proves stronger: Mary dies in her husband’s arms as her soul is carried away with the faeries.