TURNAROUND

Whilst turning over a luxurious West of Ireland rental property in preparation for the next influx of tourists, Mags (late 50s) faces a sudden and shocking bereavement when her closest friend and companion Ann (60) drops dead. Returning to the job a number of weeks later, Mags struggles emotionally, and physically, to meet the pressures of doing it alone; weighed down by the sheer scale of both her grief, the cleaning task at hand and a pair of bad knees. While the well-heeled but tight-fisted property owner Martina (40s) applies continuous out-of-hours pressure for her to bend to the whims of arriving American house guests, Mags makes a shocking discovery in the form of Hana (20s) a young, displaced woman that Ann had been hiding and helping in an annexed outhouse of the large rental property, having fled temporary accommodation from an abusive partner. Grief-stricken, furious and struggling financially to keep up the cottage and cost of living that the two friends shared, Mags must decide if she has the energy or the will to pick up any more of the pieces that Ann left behind. But as a burgeoning friendship begins to flourish with the empathetic and tenacious Hana, Mags makes the redemptive discovery that by helping others – with a small dose of poetic justice – she might end up helping herself.