A young man from a small Tipperary town feels trapped by his home situation. Desperate to escape his small town life, he makes a terrible decision with far reaching consequences.

Smother

Steve Kenny

Matthew Roche

Season 9

The Good Christian Women's Writing Group

A hip-hop love story about a macho MC who has to choose between his ego and the girl he loves.

Flow

Sexually abused as a child, a homeless woman in the throes of addiction confronts her geriatric abuser, only to find he now suffers from dementia.

Vanilla

What do we remember and why? Three actors audition to play Rasputin in a music video, only to realize they know nothing about him because they're bad at sorting fact from fiction, joke from song lyric, history from Don Bluth cartoon.

Everything Not Saved

An emotionally broken woman fears her husband's blossoming relationship with a student will bring trouble. She must find the courage to stand up for herself, and him.

Social Influence

Three working-class Belfast women join a writing group, in an effort to lift the mood of the youngest of the trio, only to learn they've accidentally joined a Christian writing group. In between some very funny and rather lewd story ideas from of one of the women, the group offers an escape for the youngest, as we learn the disturbing and all too common reasons for her depression.

Storyland is an award-winning initiative by RTÉ.ie and Screen Ireland, a program that develops and showcases new, original Irish short dramas by emerging talent in writing, directing, and acting.

It operates as a competitive call-out for scripts, with the top finalists receiving funding and support to produce their 25-minute short dramas, which are then broadcast on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player.

Smother

Seasons13

Season 8 Episodes6

Crew2

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