Oscar winning Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer, Peaky Blinders) delivers another remarkable layered performance as a devoted father in this film based on Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated 2021 novella.
While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent – and uncovers truths of his own – forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
In the run up to Christmas, Wexford coal merchant Bill is working hard to keep his clients supplied before the hard winter sets in; a quiet, introspective man, he has a tender relationship with his wife Eileen (Eileen Walsh), and is devoted to their five daughters. Early one morning while making a deliver to the local convent, presided over by the imperious Sister Mary (Emily Watson), he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.
