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Year of production : 2023

Director(s) : John CONNORS, Paul ROE
Writer(s) : John CONNORS, Tiernan WILLIAMS
Cast : Graham EARLEY, Tony DOYLE, Denise MCCORMACK, Lauren LARKIN, John CONNORS, Kevin GLYNN, Casey WALSH, Paul ROE

Producer(s) : Kevin GLYNN, Sean KELLY, Maria O'NEILL, Dylan STAGNO, Tiernan WILLIAMS

1300AD in Florence Italy, a battle for the hearts
and minds of society raged between two
groups. The White Guelphs and Black Guelphs.
The Black Guelphs supported the Papacy's
influence on the economic welfare of the
Florentine people. Hundreds of years later in
Ireland during the aftermath of the biggest
sexual abuse scandal in the history of the State.
They did it again...

Canto is thirty years old, actively dealing drugs while
suffering from mental health issues when his girlfriend Leah,
kicks him out. Leah sick of his antics and his criminal lifestyle
tries to shield her daughter Rachel from Canto's negative
influence. Canto is forced to turn to the streets for help as he
always has done. Dan, Canto's father comes back to the area
and tries to reconnect with Canto, who outright rejects him
for abandoning him when he was a child.
Dan then begins to become somewhat of a surrogate father
to Virgil who he meets outside a derelict industrial school
where Dan is rough sleeping. Virgil lives alone with his
mother Beatrice on a barge. Dan and Beatrice become
entangled romantically, two addicts seeing both their own
reflections in one another and internal motivation to find
peace. Canto's drug debts to a local enforcer are piling up
and a game of cat and mouse ensues, survival hangs in the
balance.

This film is inspired by Dante's Inferno and the seventh
terrace of lust. The symbolism of unresolved sexualised
trauma permeates down through the generations and flows
deep within the psyche.

A single act of violence perpetuates another and the original
sin, a case of childhood clerical sex abuse, creates a domino
effect where the fear of intimacy and human connection is
handed down by father to son. The seventh terrace of
Dante's inferno will only free the suffering soul when they
are brave enough to let go of fear, lust and their ego. One is
just to speak with sincerity and integrity, allowing honesty to
pass from one's lips to offer compassion to another's ear.

This simple act of humanity casts out
the inner demons, but conversely what
isn't said also becomes the root of a
never-ending and self-perpetuating
cycle of intergenerational despair. The
origins of such long forgotten, what
isn't said ultimately becomes the
symptom...