Robbie Dunne

A single mother longing for connection must choose between her autistic son and the girl next door.

‘Flicker’ is a portrait of Danny (Peter Newington), a typical twenty-something Dubliner, who gets assaulted one night in a city centre nightclub. Escaping the incident with only minor injuries, Danny throws himself back into his old routine: early-morning classes, five-a-side football, late nights on the sesh with the lads. Pretty soon, however, Danny begins to realise that the assault has affected him in more ways than one.

When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world.

An unhappily married woman finds escape in the form of an affair with an equally desperate younger man.