Two sad strangers in a car: one can't drive, the other can't stay married. Irish indie magic.
A university drop-out living with her mum and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up.
Acting
Kerslake and Kielty's brittle, beautiful chemistry in close quarters
Writing
Dialogue that sounds improvised but cuts like a blade
Direction
Puwanarajah finds poetry in petrol station parking lots
Director
Prasanna Puwanarajah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ballywalter is a real village in County Down, and the film captures post-Troubles Northern Ireland's particular brand of gallows humor—where trauma becomes punchline because what else can you do?
This was Prasanna Puwanarajah's feature debut after years as a stage director; he cast Kielty against type after seeing him in a play, knowing audiences would bring decades of chat-show baggage to the role.
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