The first shot in the film is the sacred heart statue on Gray Street in The Liberties. It’s morning time on the snow-covered street. The camera loiters a moment on the domed canopy, closes in on Jesus’s face and cuts to nearby Cork Street and the Timberyard, a 2009 social housing complex designed by Dublin architects O’Donnell + Twomey. In the courtyard, children take turns skidding on a track of black ice in thin winter light while their parents talk about the building fostering community and bringing them together. A statue of the Virgin Mary salvaged from a 1980s grotto…

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