Ciara Oand#39;Dwyer is a young woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slums of 1870; Johnny McCormack is a struggling actor drawn to the nascent folk music movement in Greenwich Village 1960; and Lewis Healy is a successful Irishman whoand#39;s come to present-day Manhattan on his wifeand#39;s anniversary-present promise to reveal the connection between him and them. The mystery originates with Ciaraand#39;s runaway husband, who disappeared after promising to join her in America, and carries into midcentury when Johnny, devastated by an unexpected romance and a lost shot at musical fame, gets a supernatural visitor