Civic Life: Leisure Centre

Desperate Optimists

IndieLisboa 2009 •

Ireland, United Kingdom, Fiction, 2005, 18′

Filmed in September 2005 in the new leisure centre on Main Street Ballymun. It follows a young man through the building where he works as he struggles to come to terms with his new role as a father. It is the mother of his child, who helps him to open his eyes and imagine a better future for him and his young family.