In a remote village in western Ireland, the village simpleton runs the local garage. People are generally kindly disposed to him, though he can be the butt of their humour or a shoulder to cry on, but nobody really cares about him. The garage owner takes on a young lad to help out at weekends, and the two get on well. However, things go wrong when he innocently provides the lad and his mates with alcohol, and shows the lad a blue movie he'd been given. Following complaints, his world starts to crumble as the Garda tell him to keep out of the town, a girl he was attracted to says she is not interested, and the garage owner lets him go on account of scandal avoidance. In the end he drowns himself, as an acquaintance has drowned some puppies. Before doing so though, he releases a penned in horse: he and the horse find freedom in different ways. Very slow and elegiac, and not a good advert for the warm and friendly people of Tipperary, but still very well observed story-telling.
Review of Garage
