Cillian Murphey plays Bill Furlong, a trademan in coals in rural Ireland a couple of decades ago. He has a hard life, but a loving wife and five daughters.
One of his customers is a nearby cloister which is a so-called “Magdalene asylum”. Young women, usually pregnant without a partner, are sent there and Bill starts to realise that they are not treated very well.
“Small Things Like These” is a slow, gritty, minimalist film based on the fairly famous book by Claire Keegan.
