An intimate study of the slow-paced diurnal round of activity in Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, the westernmost village in Europe and one of the last Gaelic-speaking communities. At the time of filming, 1967, the village consisted of 180 people, most elderly and poor. This portrait of a peasant society was filmed at a time when acculturation by urban tourists was beginning; the language, customs and subsistence techniques of the past are presented without commentary or narration. A hidden treasure that presages the coming of observational cinema where the great film scholar Colin Young and the anthropologist Paul Hockings collaborate under the direction of Mark McCarty.