Will is released from prison on compassionate leave to care for his niece Stacey after the death of her mother. As they both head into the sleepy Irish midlands and attempt to be a family, they suffer a series of setbacks; Stacey is refused admission to the local school because of her recently developed narcolepsy;

Alan Gilsenan’s Timbuktu, is a characteristically stylish and uncompromising drama, based on a screenplay by Paul Freaney. It features Eva Birthistle as a young Irishwoman, who, with the help of her precocious transvestite friend (Karl Geary), searches for her brother, (Liam O’Maonlai), a monk kidnapped by Algerian rebels in the North African Sahara. The film