Devastating, tough and tender, a portrait of modern masculinity as
shaped by violence and poverty but also by the courage to love and
to survive Anthony grew up brawling with the headcases round the
estate, torching stolen cars, beaking school. His little brother
Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and
never come back. But Sean does come back. Finished with university,
he finds Anthony's drinking spiralling out of control as the dark
shadow of his childhood catches up on him. Meanwhile the jobs in
Belfast have vanished and no one will give Sean the time of day.
One night he loses it and assaults a stranger at a party, and
everything is tipped into chaos. Close to Home witnesses the
aftermath of this mistake, as Sean attempts to make sense of who he
has become, and to find a way through the rubble. And it maps, with
great compassion, the forces which keep young working class men in
harm's way, the silences that exist in the gaps between what is
sayable, and the formidable courage required to survive.
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