A small Irish island off the western coast, 1923. Pádraic Súilleabháin learns that his lifelong best friend, Colm Doherty, no longer wishes to speak to him. Colm escalates: every time Pádraic approaches, he will cut off one of his own fingers. The civil war is audible across the water. McDonagh’s third feature stages a parable about how friendships die without anything happening to cause it.