Ireland, 2022 / 94’ / Irish Gaelic, English with Turkish and English subtitles

Director

Colm Bairéad

Screenplay

Colm Bairéad, Claire Keegan

Cast

Cleona Ní Chrualaoí, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennet

Cáit is a nine year-old girl from an over-crowded, dysfunctional and impoverished family. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her.

As summer arrives and her pregnant mother’s due date approaches, Cáit (Catherine Clinch)

is sent to live with distant relatives. Without knowing when she will return home, she is left at the strangers’ house with only the clothes she is wearing. The Kinsellas, a middle-aged couple she has never met, dress the girl in what clothes they have.

They are farming people, like her own, but hard-working and wanting for nothing, it seems. Despite a warm reception from the woman, Eibhlín (Carrie Crowley), the man of the house, Seán (Andrew Bennett), keeps his distance from Cáit and she from him, but over time, their strained relationship begins to deepen.

Slowly, in the care of the Kinsellas, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living. But in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.

2022 Berlin International Film Festival Won, Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury Best Feature Film

2022 Dublin International Film Festival Won, Audience Award

Won, Discovery Award