Bob Quinn's The Bishop's Story also centers on an unexpected pregnancy. In a series of conversations, a bishop tells a younger priest the story of his love affair while a young curate in a remote island community in western Ireland. Structured as a series of flashbacks, the hauntingly beautiful island footage is constructed from Quinn's earlier, Gaelic-speaking Budawanny. Donal McCann is excellent as both the young curate and the cynical bishop who has lost his faith. On learning of the pregnancy, the popular curate revealed the news to his parish, suggesting that they can call him "father" in more than one sense of the word. Critic Terry Byrne notes that "Once again, we are presented with a portrait of the Irish as other than we expect: the islanders' essential decency in their willingness to forgive the priest and the girl in spite of their transgression..." Eerie music accompanies this spare, poetic film, adapted from Padraic Standuin's novel Lovers. (KG)