Brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer - successful, competent, and unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women. Ivan is a competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.