Turlough comes home after their mother dies expecting to settle the farm’s future. Lorcan, who has Down syndrome and lives there, has other plans. Their mother’s unfinished list gives the brothers an excuse to postpone the argument, and the film gets its best laughs from how unceremoniously they keep failing to complete it.
James Martin gives Lorcan a dry, unhurried wit; Seamus O’Hara plays Turlough as a man who has learned to be practical before he has learned to be kind. Their chemistry makes the comedy feel earned. They are not suddenly healed by a funny task. They keep needling each other, then keep turning up. That is where the affection sits.
The film sometimes leans on familiar “one last adventure” sentiment, and its tidy ending can be felt approaching. But there is a lightness to its handling of grief that never makes Lorcan the punchline. The list is a good device because it lets the brothers remember their mother in motion. The final feeling is less a lesson than a small, welcome shift in how they see one another.
