A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world – a world of the paranormal or perhaps insanity.

The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.

A husband and father struggles to keep his family in the comfortable lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed while keeping his financial worries secret from them.

Jerry has done well during Ireland's recent economic boom. From the outside it looks like he has the perfect life, but if we scratch the surface there is something very dark and disturbing underneath. This film explores the greed, apathy and prejudices of a society transformed by an economic miracle.