After working for many years as a shipbuilder in Glasgow, Frank ( Peter Mullan) loses his job at age 55. Already burdened with the emotional scar of losing a young son years earlier, his relationship with wife, Joan (Brenda Blethyn), and other son (Jamie Sives) is distant; now, really too young to retire and knowing that finding a new job will be difficult, he enters a state of depression. One day, at a local pool, he sees a physically challenged child bravely swimming and, in a burst of inspiration, he decides that to regain his self-respect he will attempt to swim the English Channel!
A nice mix of drama, humor and wonderful characters, this is a film worth viewing.
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