Quiet, watchful, and in no hurry to explain itself. Margaret is a divorcée in Dublin living with the loss of her teenage son, and Rebecca Daly's film stays close to her through ordinary hours instead of big scenes.

Joe arrives in that space, a homeless young man, wary and hard to place. The arrangement the two of them reach has no name for it, and the film declines to supply one. Rachel Griffiths plays Margaret with little outward signal, so you read her through her decisions rather than her speeches. Barry Keoghan, early in his career, gives Joe a stillness that keeps his wants unreadable. Michael McElhatton plays an ex-husband whose grieving runs hotter and louder, with Nika McGuigan and Johnny Ward at the edges of the story.

Daly co-wrote the screenplay with Glenn Montgomery, and the two of them withhold the explanatory scene most dramas build toward. Daly shows you behaviour and leaves the accounting to you. The Irish, Luxembourgish and Dutch co-production screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and it carries the patience of European art cinema along with a refusal to console. Worth your evening if you want a drama to sit inside rather than one that ties itself off.