Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore so you can keep on.

202499 min6.6 / 10

A somber, introspective drama about complicity and moral reckoning in a small Irish town shadowed by institutional abuse and Catholic control.

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

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