Set in an oddly familiar, but not-quite-the-same rural Ireland, Trad tells the tale of Thomas, a 100- year- old man and his improbably even older father. Thomas' father berates him daily for being the end of the family line. When Thomas reveals that he may have sired a child seventy years ago, the two set off to find this child with only a limp, a hobble and a prayer between them.