Achoimre
Hogan explores the real pathos of people who believe they love each other and yet cannot communicate with each other. Bill, an American Literary Agent in his forties, who has split from his wife and family, picks up a pretty young Irish woman, who has been similarily abandoned with her son by her husband. She falls into his arms as much out of boredom as anything else. After the Summer's affair, he returns to the States and fails to get the divorce he had promised to his Dublin lover, causing her to slip into a depression. However, by the play's end, with both protagonists on their uppers, there exists a gleam of hope