Exiles

Nine years after abandoning Dublin for Italy, writer Richard Rowan returns with his common-law wife Bertha and their son. Richard, a self-proclaimed exile, immediately finds himself entangled in a web of complicated relationships. There's Beatrice Justice, his son's new piano teacher, with whom he's been corresponding, and Robert Hand, Richard's journalist friend, who has grown close to Bertha. This charged domestic drama explores the volatile terrain of freedom, doubt, and infidelity within personal relationships, specifically Richard's "spiritual abandonment" of Bertha, echoing elements of Joyce's own unconventional life with Nora Barnacle.