Thaddeus O'Sullivan, cinematographer on Pigs and director of On a Paving Stone Mounted and other Irish independents, captures the sense of bleak isolation felt by Dubliners in the 1930s, when, as O'Sullivan notes, "The new Irish Free State had turned Ireland into an inward-looking, conservative country...." Only religion--and the cinema--could reach into people's lives. This is the tale of George, a displaced Londoner, and his Catholic wife Mary, whose own lives are changed by a night at the movies. Mary becomes obsessed with a similarity between her husband, with his new moustache, and Clark Gable playing the faithless Blackie in San Francisco. The mixture of romance and repentance ignites her desire.