Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Acting
Non-professional kids who feel devastatingly, beautifully real.
Cinematography
Color bleeds in as hope grows — visual storytelling at its finest.
Direction
Daly never exploits these kids, just witnesses them.
Director
Lance Daly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lead actors Kelly O'Neill and Shane Curry were discovered at open casting in Dublin working-class neighborhoods; neither had acted before.
The film captures 2007 Dublin just before the economic crash — that specific liminal moment of Celtic Tiger hangover and working-class neglect.
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