At the age of five, grania-the daughter of hardworking Irish hoteliers in smalltown ontario-emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf and is suddenly sealed off from the world that was just beginning to open f...At the age of five, grania-the daughter of hardworking Irish hoteliers in smalltown ontario-emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf and is suddenly sealed off from the world that was just beginning to open for her. Her guilt-plagued mother cannot accept her daughter's deafness.