Syracuse, as a place name, may refer to:
Plot
Ken Dumanski is a well known, award winning entertainment journalist, though he is better known for his outrageous exploits among the Hollywood and rock and roll elite. After a near death experience he relocates his family to the town of his alma mater where he becomes a professor in the hopes of exorcising his demons. But can he hold it together when the past comes calling to drag him back down the rabbit hole?
Keywords: addiction, alcohol, college, drugs, fraternity, journalism, party, prison, rehabilitation
Plot
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a fisherman, on the wagon, living alone. His precocious daughter, Annie, about 10, has failing kidneys. One day, a nearly-drowned young woman comes up in his net; she speaks oddly, calls herself Ondine, and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she's a selkie, a mythical seal turned human while on land. If this is a fairy tale, is there a happily ever after, or do the realities of alcohol, illness, and worse intrude, including Syracuse's inveterate bad luck? As his priest tell him, misery's easy, it's happiness you have to work at. Any hope of that?
Keywords: air-guitar, alcohol, alcoholic, bathtub, car-crash, catholic-priest, caught-in-a-net, celtic-mythology, character-name-in-title, child-in-peril
The truth is not what you know. It's what you believe.
Syracuse: Once upon a time...
Annie: So what's the story?
Priest: I don't like this at all.
Syracuse: She sings to the fishes and he catches them.
Annie: [Describing the Selkies] They don't speak, they sing.
Syracuse: How long are you staying?::Ondine: Depends, I guess.::Syracuse: On what?::Ondine: On you.::Syracuse: On me? It depends on me, you can stay forever.::Ondine: Forever?::Syracuse: Forever, happily ever after, once upon a time... I'm been telling my daughter a story, a fairy tale...
Priest: Misery is easy. Happiness you have to work at.
[first lines]::Syracuse: [into radio] Anybody out there? I need a little help.
Ondine: I don't want to see anyone.::Syracuse: Well I just disappear then?::Ondine: I don't mind seeing you.::Syracuse: "You don't mind seeing me." That's nice.::Ondine: Say again?::Syracuse: Most people do.
Annie: You sure it's not some kind of wish-fulfillment kind of thing?::Syracuse: Where did you learn words like that?::Annie: I go to school.::Syracuse: And I didn't...::Annie: No. Let's be honest, you didn't. You move your mouth when you read.
I step down into sand
Water carries us from here
(Whatever the thing that set you up
Set you off and down again)
I'm fightin' this assignment
I'm wishin' we fall into the well
I'm fightin' this assignment
I'm wishin' we fall into the world
(Until he's spared no reason)
I step down into sand
Water carries us from here
(What he doesn't know
What he doesn't know
Could fit inside a thimble)
I missed your monotube?
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L'?le de P?ques et Kairouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s'amusent
A glisser l'aile sous le vent.
Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du grand Lama
R?ver des amants de V?rone
Au sommet du Fuji-Yama.
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller p?cher au cormoran
Et m'enivrer de vin de palme
En ?coutant chanter le vent.
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L'ile de Paques et Kairouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s'amusent
A glisser l'aile sous le vent
Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du Grand Lama
Rever des amants de Verone
Au sommet du Fuji Yama
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pecher le cormoran
Et m'enivrer de vin de palme
En ecoutant chanter le vent
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pecher le cormoran
Et m'enivrer de vin de palme
En ecoutant chanter le vent
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L'île de Pâques et Kairouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s'amusent
À glisser l'aile sour le vent
Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du grand Lama
Rêver des amants de Verone
Au sommet du Fujiyama
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pêcher au cormoran
Et m'ennivrer de vin de palme
En écoutant chanter le vent
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L'ile de Paques et Kairouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s'amusent
A glisser l'aile sous le vent...
Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du Grand Lama
Rever des amants de Verone
Au sommet du Fuji Yama...
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pecher le cormoran
Et m'enivrer de vin de palme
En ecoutant chanter le vent...
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
Pour m'en souvenir a Paris.
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L'ile de Paques et Kairouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s'amusent
A glisser l'aile sous le vent...
Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du Grand Lama
Rever des amants de Verone
Au sommet du Fuji Yama...
Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pecher le cormoran
Et m'enivrer de vin de palme
En ecoutant chanter le vent...
Avant que ma jeunesse s'use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J'aimerais tant voir Syracuse