From Day To Day

Mick, a local trawlerman, has alienated nearly everyone is his life and has to face his loneliness when the global pandemic reaches Ireland’s shores. A call out of the blue that there is a positive case on the trawler forces Mick to isolate. Battling repressed demons, an irritable Mick struggles with lockdown boredom and a pesky next door neighbour learning to play the tin whistle.

As the days morph into each other the gravity of the pandemic weighs heavily, but oblivious to Mick, who has taken to drowning out the outside world, the tin whistler improves. Mick suddenly realizes the cacophony through the walls has actually become beautiful music. Triggering something emotive, Mick rushes to dust off his long hidden-away fiddle and sparks a back and forth with the tin whistler, leading to an impromptu musical session and a socially distanced lockdown ceilí with the neighbours.

Is this the catalyst for a new Mick?