When his father’s health takes a turn, Michael is made to take more responsibility for the family’s farm.
This pulls him into a generational conflict with a rival shepherding family, and when this hostility suddenly escalates, it sparks a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devastating turns, leaving both families permanently altered.
This dark Irish thriller from first-time filmmaker Christopher Andrews,is a tense, gripping and confident debut from a bold new cinematic voice, starring Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, Bird, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) and Christopher Abbott (Possessor, It Comes at Night).
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