Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) has many reasons to be happy: her three teenage daughters, her twenty‐year marriage, and her work as a successful novelist. But suddenly, all the quiet satisfactions of her life disappear when her eldest daughter, Norah (Hannah Gross), drops out of college and leaves home for a Toronto street corner, refusing to speak and holding a sign that says simply ‘Goodness’.

Adapted from Carol Shield’s final novel, Unless is a deeply moving study of parental grief in the face of incomprehensible loss.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

This screening will be attended by Alan Gilsenan.

Screening as part of the Alan Gilsenan Retrospective