Peter Johansen

Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s.

After her son's death, the mother struggles to find herself and constantly sees visions. She becomes increasingly difficult to control.

"X" is a confused young man who has chained his mentally retarded brother to a wall in the cellar. Haunted by hallucinations, "X" tries to compensate his guilty feelings towards his brother as well as vis-à-vis his own past. All persons who come too near his delusionary world are ruthlessly put out of the way...