Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Top Cast
Albert Finney as Alfred Byrne
Brenda Fricker as Lily Byrne
Michael Gambon as Ivor J. Carney
Tara Fitzgerald as Adele Rice
Rufus Sewell as Robbie Fay
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