Even before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly started caring for his patients in the Northern Irish town of Ballybucklebo, he joined the war against Hitler's Germany as a young military doctor. After a year of service, he is offered to upgrade his qualifications in anesthesiology at the British Naval Hospital Haslar. At the same time, he plans to marry his beloved Deirdre. The future is uncertain, but Fingal and Deirdre are determined to unite their lives regardless of the war. Soon after the wedding, Fingal is called to the battleship Warspite, where he deals with the hardships of war at sea as a ship's doctor. The Battle of Britain is in full swing and the inhabitants of the island kingdom are threatened by constant raids by German fighter jets...
A quarter of a century later, O'Reilly is a renowned country doctor, who is completely fulfilled by treating the physical and mental ailments of the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Ballybucklebo. Even long after the war, however, life does not go smoothly - whether it is the pregnancy complications of one of the patients or the mysterious health problem of an old medical classmate. New events and crazy situations - like when one entrepreneur tries to make money by selling a pack of very strange racing dogs - keep Fingal and his young partner Barry busy. Will O'Reilly's time with his quirky patients help him say goodbye to the ghosts of his wartime past forever?