When you live in a place of hostility and fear it is very difficult to live an ordinary, and untroubled life. There is always something that rears an ugly head to interject in the everyday when you live amongst communities that are fractious and warring. Back in the late 80’s early 90’s sectarian violence was still an everyday and commonplace occurrence. is about James, a young man desperate to prove his worth to the local brigade of one of the largest ‘terrorist’ organisations in Northern Ireland. When he is brought along on an execution, and is handed the weapon and ordered to pull the trigger on the unfortunate victim, he suddenly realises that everything he thought he valued, and everything he ever believed he stood for, is instantly challenged in that moment. But with his peers watching on, and willing him to complete his ‘assignment’, James knows that the choice he makes in those last precious few seconds will stay with him for a lifetime. He will come to discover that when you take another man’s life, it’s in the end of one, that another is so terribly changed. What James ultimately discovers about himself will inevitably and fatally have a profound effect on him, and will firmly test the real reasons and motivations behind his apparent desire to be part of a ‘family’ that once inside, he will never be able to leave behind.

Starring:

Finbarr Delaney, Howard Corlett, Chris Bell, Steve Hay

Genre:

Drama, Short