It is 1936 & harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters barely making ends meet their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack a missionary priest repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years & the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but the wider landscape interior & exterior Christian & pagan of which they are a part.