

14 minutes that'll wreck you harder than a three-hour epic. Irish grief hits different.
After years in New York, Áine returns to rural Ireland for her godmother’s memorial, confronting buried family tensions and unexpressed grief in her childhood home.
Acting
McGrath's face does three acts of grief without dialogue.
Direction
Connaire knows exactly when to hold the shot one beat too long.
Director
Shaunagh Connaire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to Irish soda bread traditionally made for wakes — food as ritual, food as avoidance, food as the only language this family speaks.
Shot in Connaire's actual family home in County Roscommon; Flanagan and Crowley had previously played married couple in a 2019 Abbey Theatre production.