Banyan Tree, The

On an over-grown and run-down farm in Ireland in the late 1980's, widowed Minnie O'Brien remembers the past.She recalls her courtship and marriage in 1922 to craftsman-farmer Peter, the love of her life, whom she met at a country fair. She remembers their lives together on the farm, the births of their three children and what has become of them. Between the turf-cutting, roof-laying and hurling matches of her early married days and the "modern-age" of mains electricity and "airoplanes" lie well-worn paths of reminiscence down which Minnie rambles contentedly as she waits for her men to come home.