Through skilful employment of improvisation director Kirsten Sheridan follows five teens on an unruly ravaging adventure, a process of achieving knowledge of oneself and understanding of one another.
Five young people break into a house when the owners are away. They are like aliens amidst the clean, stylish environment and modern fittings. Their urge to demolish seems to know no bounds as they burn a trail of destruction through the pristine rooms with their expensive furniture and decor. After hours of dedicated devastation in a bizarre caricature of family life, the boy next door turns up at their door. His presence seems to dramatically change the group dynamics; alongside the seemingly unbridled aggression hidden secrets slowly surface.
The reason I wanted to make this kind of film is to explore what I see as a new world, a lost world that teenagers seem to inhabit these days, no necessity in their lives, no responsibility and therefore no centre to their existence.« (Kirsten Sheridan)
Kirsten Sheridan
Born in 1976 in Dublin, Ireland. She studied scriptwriting at the New York University and earned her film degree from the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design in 1998. He feature film debut screened at the Berlin FF in 2011. In 2002, Sheridan was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing In America with her father, Jim Sheridan, and her sister, Naomi Sheridan.