On a hot summer’s night in 1967, Johnny Hollywood Hogan parked his pale blue Lincoln continental on Portstewart Strand and solemnly told his girlfriend Marion that he would always love her. But Johnny didn’t ask her to be his wife. Marion, pregnant and terrified of a scandal, fled to the safe embrace of gentle baker Eddy Greenwood. Seven months later, Declan was born. Too late, Johnny realised what he had lost. He consoled himself with running his precious ballroom on Magnolia Street and dreaming of the day when Marion would come back to him.