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Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns (Daphne, Mayflies) helms this accomplished and affecting Dublin-set character study. Written by Irish screenwriter Mark O’Halloran, the film features exceptional and touching performances from its lead actors: Ireland’s Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and the UK’s Tom Glynn-Carney. Co-produced by the BFI and London-based The Bureau.

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On the face of it, forty-six-year-old Colm has a comfortable life with a nice house, a kind wife (Monica Dolan), teenage children and a managerial job in Dublin’s docks. But when Colm finds himself drawn to nineteen-year-old sex worker Jay (Tom Glynn-Carney), his closeted sexuality is unleashed, putting the life he’s built at risk.