Light Across the Cove
A Cork lighthouse keeper crosses three counties to deliver a forty-year-old love letter.
/ synopsis
Donal O'Briain finds a barnacled bottle on the rocks beneath the Bere light. Inside: a letter from 1984, addressed to a name he half remembers. He boards the morning ferry and follows it across the country, learning that the man who wrote it was waiting for him all along.
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- 01wide
The Bottle on the Rocks
Pre-dawn. Donal walks the cliff path with a thermos of tea. The wind catches a green glass bottle as the tide retreats.
- 02close up
Letter from 1984
Inside the keeper's cottage, the kettle whistles. Donal's weathered hands unfold a yellowed letter. Cursive in fountain pen.
- 03aerial
Ferry to Bantry
Drone-style shot of the morning ferry slicing through pewter water. Donal stands at the prow, the letter folded in his jacket.
- 04medium
The Bench Outside Murphy's
Bantry. A weather-beaten man on a bench looks up. He folds his newspaper. He has been folding it every Sunday for forty years.
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