A Tale Before Departure

<p>A TALE BEFORE DEPARTURE </p> <p>Can murder and death be predetermined by the utterances of a drunken curse? </p> <p>A stranger carrying an unusual cloth handbag engages in conversation with a fellow travel during a flight delay. When questioned about the bag the man relates a gloomy tale. His tale begins when a clap of thunder sets a peacefully gazing bull into a mad charge trampling the young man to death. The man is linked to the beating and rape of a teenage girl found at the bottom of a rocky ravine. </p> <p>The stranger's narrative follows the cursed son of a soothsayer forced to flee for his life during the 'Irish Uprising' to New York and a new start. </p> <p> Under a cloud of mysticism the tale recounts the heartrending account of four generations through tragic marriages a secreted child's escape into education a nun's search for identify a mother's neglect a man's isolation and untimely deaths. </p>