The Doyle’s are your off-the-shelf dysfunctional family of Irish intelligentsia, gathered together for the funeral of their poet-teacher father. Younger sister Medbh, a bohemian would-be thesp who still lives at home, is joined by her tight-assed sister Catherine - back from New York with a good-hearted but dim Galway Protestant boyfriend in tow – and fearsome brother Johnny, an incendiary blend of Jacobean malcontent and Angry Young Man. As long-suffering but solid-as-a-rock mother Moya tries with only partial success to keep the lid on the familial pressure-cooker. Even the deceased Enda turns up on a series of video diaries, in a cheeky update of Beckett's Krapp