The Waking Of Willie Ryan

Willie Ryan arrives back in his home town in the central plain of Ireland, having escaped from an insane asylum where he was wrongfully incarcerated. Accused of violence by his strict Catholic family, the true reason for his imprisonment is a homosexual affair. When he returns, his family continues to insist on Willie's insanity hoping to bring about his reconciliation with the church. When Willie knows he is about to die, he agrees to a private family Mass, setting the stage for a confrontation that will pitch moral integrity against the "petty bourgeois snobbishness. hypocrisies and pretensions" of 1950s Ireland.