Eileen Reid

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.

アイルランドの首都、ダブリンを舞台に本格的なソウル・バンドを目指す若者たちの姿を描いた音楽群像劇。画面のなかとはいえ、何かに情熱を傾ける若者の姿を見ていると思わず目頭が熱くなる。