A bible, black comedy about a prodigal son returning to his hometown to seek salvation for his sins. Jimmy is a nihilist with a hilariously bleak view on life. He carries a black doctor’s bag around with him containing the rope he plans to hang himself with when he returns home to the cold austere beauty of Ballylough, in West Cavan, to say goodbye to his family. There his brother, Damien, has been stuck looking after their sick father for seven years. He is consumed with bitterness and self-righteousness at Jimmy’s disappearance. As soon as Jimmy visits his ailing father, he dies. The second his father breaths his last, the thunder rumbles and the rain starts to pour. And there is a condition in the will… that his father cannot be buried on a wet day. Jimmy is stuck in his hometown until the rain stops. Stuck in this ‘Groundhog Day-like’ purgatory, days roll into weeks as Jimmy seeks redemption and then through love he finds it in the most sacrificial and outlandish manner possible.
