In this blended, blighted household, fear has a completely different maintain on Niall, performed as an adolescent by Mitchell Robertson.
In the Nineteen Eighties, Niall’s path is set on a lifelong collision course with Ruben, his “brother from another lover”, delivered to life in his youthful years by Stuart Campbell.
It’s a decade by which homophobia has taken a seat at many households’ dinner tables.
As Niall’s gaze lingers on a poster of shirtless males and his nerves skyrocket in the firm of ladies, he should be underneath an phantasm – however we aren’t.
The Aids disaster is devastatingly rampant and Scotland is having its own, distinct grapple with it.
No good comes from Niall being in the closet, however he is satisfied far worse would come from stepping out of it.
The journey that fear takes him on is not a slow-motion automobile crash, it is a full-throttle run of joyless rides.
No one is secure from being collateral injury by the time Jamie Bell performs Niall later in life.
Time passes and society shifts, however Niall both cannot see others’ fear, or he is too consumed by his personal to care.
