The year is 1915, in Spring. The Great War is all over Europe. Jack McColl is in India spying for the U.K. on activities of the German forces on that subcontinent while back closer to home, a former lover, a journalist named Caitlin Hanley, is struggling to find her way in a world where her brother, an IRA sympathizer, was killed when his anti-England plot was stopped by McColl. Now rumors of an uprising in Dublin are getting louder.