Us Boys

Us Boys is the story of Ernie and Stewart Morrow and their relationship to the world at the end of their long winding lane. These men are two bachelors, who happen to be protestant, and who live on a farm in a glen in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. They live in a way their ancestors-of a hundred or even two hundred years ago-would recognise as familiar. Free from fuss and responsibilities of the twentieth century their lives have continued unchanged for seventy years. Rural bachelors, rarely washing, living without ‘the electric’ they survive on a diet of hard work and fresh air, white bread, tea and cigarettes. But 75-year-old Stewart’s health is deteriorating, and Ernie, at 79, insists on going it alone at ‘Old Church’ with the twenty head of cattle, one hundred sheep and countless fowl. He will not admit he is becoming increasingly dependent on the visits from his brother Robert and nephew Adrian, who live further down the valley.