A 15-minute Irish short where a mop becomes a bridge between two lonely women—prepare to feel things.
Angela is a domestic cleaner who keeps herself to herself. Mairead is a houseproud mother who, more often than not, finds herself alone at home with the children. When a mundane household accident forces Angela to add emergency childminding to her list of duties, a friendship begins between employer and employee. As the relationship blooms, they begin to discover that there may be more that bonds them together than just loneliness. But is this just another work-based transaction, or does it mean something else?
Acting
Conroy and Bracken say everything without speaking it.
Direction
Mullane turns a kitchen into a whole emotional landscape.
Director
Edwin Mullane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Irish short cinema has been quietly dominating festivals for years; this joins a tradition of kitchen-sink intimacy that punches above its runtime.
The film's power lies in what it refuses to resolve—the ambiguity of that final moment is entirely intentional, forcing the audience to sit with their own assumptions about transactional intimacy.
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