Terry O'Sullivan

Trilogía compuesta por los tres primeros cortometrajes de Davies ("Children" (1976), "Madonna and Child" (1980) y "Death and Transfiguration" (1983)), que corresponden a distintas etapas de la vida de Robert Tucker: su opresiva infancia, marcada por los malos tratos de su padre y de sus compañeros de colegio; su madurez como gris oficinista atormentado por su homosexualidad, siempre al lado de su madre; y sus últimos días, en los que se ve asaltado por dolorosos recuerdos del pasado.

In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back.

The second part of Terence Davies' trilogy revolving around Liverpudlian Robert Tucker, focusing on the character's efforts in middle-age to come to terms with his homosexuality.