One of the basic pagan worships in any land is the adoration of water. From the beginning of man, the well has been a shrine, a symbol of life to be officiated by sacrifice and prayer. If not the well itself, the gods, or devils, or guardians of its sacred content. So now let us join Patrick Kinsella of Boston, fourth generation Irish, as he starts unwittingly on a trip which will take him back to his family roots and beyond them to a brooding misty, foreboding past, a past where timeless spirits stir, and live again...