The Long Day Closes

It's the mid-1950s in working class Liverpool. Preteen Bud, who lives with his Mum and his three older siblings, Kev, John and Helen, is shaped by their loving home environment, their Catholic faith, the strictness of his school environment which makes him often daydream, being bullied by three of his classmates in part with their taunts of he being a "fruit", and his love of the movies, going to the cinema and watching them his favorite activity. Even when he is by himself with seemingly nothing to do, he will stare out the window in observing the goings-on outside which further shapes his life in their connection to his inner thoughts. A series of somewhat unconnected vignettes, many presented in a pseudo-dreamlike manner, over the course of approximately mid-1955 to late-1956, provide a collage of Bud's life, but when taken together form a more complete picture of him.