Afternoon Cinema: Small Things Like These

Christmas 1985 approaches. Coal merchant Bill Furlong [Cillian Murphy], who is regarded as a fair and hardworking man from the Irish town of New Ross, is a father of five girls. One day he sets off on his deliveries earlier than expected. When he opens the coal shed of the local convent, he discovers a teenage girl, Sarah, locked in the shed in freezing temperatures. 

The film reveals the shocking truths of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries