This Irish-set feature debut from US-born director Steph Green is heartfelt and noteworthy in putting a stroke sufferer on screen, Edward MacLiam's Conor, who isn't wheelchair-bound but a hyperactive soul trapped in challenging behavioural patterns.

What's around him is undoubtedly melodramatic: Conor's wife, Vanetia (Maxine Peake), is torn between upholding her wedding vows and a growing attraction to Ted (Will Forte), the American neurobiologist who's become a default father to her children. It's prone to debutant missteps, including an over-reliance on picturesque montages. Yet it's persuasive in its quieter, observational stretches, when Green trusts a series of mealtime looks and glances to convey the faultlines opening up in this household, for instance.

Peake, warmly sketching a woman busy fooling herself that everything will work out, and Forte, as precise as he was in Nebraska, keep it honest, and within touching distance of real poignancy.