Samanta Nobody (2026) Movie Script
1
(guitar strumming)
Gonna to find myself a boat
Cast out from the bay
At first light in the morning
Of the brightest summer's day
And I'm taking nothing with me
But my songs, my
thoughts, my fears
Won't let hopelessness define
me
There may be tears
I'll sail across the ocean
With blue skies overhead
A summer wind behind me
Nothing left to be said
So come a little closer
And I'll whisper in your ear
I'll tell you about tomorrow
And all the things I'll see
I'll sing out to the heavens
I'll sing out to the stars
With nothing left to bite me
The ocean will heal the scars
Someday
Maybe someday
Maybe someday
Maybe someday
Someday
Someday
Someday
Gonna find myself a boat
(bird flutters past)
(footsteps)
(birds flutter away)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(seagulls squawking)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
Thanks
(baby laughing)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
[Samanta] Hey, Mary Ann
Hi, Samanta
You near in front today.
[Mary Ann] Got here early.
[Mary Ann] This is my new
friend here Samanta, Derek.
Ex-army, Derek.
- 27 years in all.
- In the Lebanon.
[Derek] That was some
sunset, let me tell you.
[Mary Ann] Soldier, protector
of the country.
He's in the serviceman's
mission.
Nice place, good people.
I heard that.
Hostel yourself?
No, no institutional
living, our Samanta
She doesn't even take welfare
You a drinker?
Long time now. You?
No drink, our Samanta.
[Mary Ann] She's a musician.
Pay no heed to this aul one.
What a voice.
She'd make loads if
only she'd busk.
[Samanta] Not now/
When I was a kid, vodka.
It's Marky.
(footsteps)
[Marky] New man or new punter,
huh?
[Marky] Catch you later.
(music)
(footsteps)
(coins dropping)
(music)
(coins dropping)
- Thank you
(music)
(Puff)
(Puff, puff)
(seagulls squawking, dog barks)
(footsteps)
[Samanta] Did you not get a bed?
Five past six, and it
was all full. Thank you.
Keep seeing Marky around town.
Thank you.
You're not using, are you?
Not for ages.
Why are you so kind to me?
Go on, sing me a verse.
Go on.
Sing that last one that
was really beautiful.
Sing me a verse. Go on
Dance
Come dance with me
Inside our heads,
where we can be
Get lost in song, lost in time
Play the mood, sing the lines
You and me, is all we need
Come dance
Come dance
Dance with me
Come dance
Come dance
Come dance with me
it's beautiful.
Laundrette.
(traffic noises)
(footsteps)
[Betty] Hey, Samanta
[Betty] There's one free
down the back.
Cold
[Betty] The heat of the machines
will soon warm you.
(hum of machines)
(footsteps)
Samanta?
(muffled) Around the back.
Is everything okay here?
[Marky] Everything's fine.
[Marky] Hunky dory.
[Betty] You can't go back there.
(hum of machines)
(Marky laughs)
[Marky] You hiding from me.
Never hide from such a
big man like you, Marky.
[Marky] Always with the
smart answers.
[Marky] Mary Ann owes me 800
and you guaranteed it.
You could, always
deal a little weed.
Don't think it's embarrassing
me having to keep asking.
I'm not selling.
Look
It's a game.
It's all a game, you, me, them.
[Marky] It's a game.
[Marky] And don't have me
come looking for you again.
[Betty] Are you okay?
He's nothing.
(traffic noises)
(door opens)
(door closes)
(music plays in shop)
(music plays in shop)
(music plays in shop)
[Jo] Can I help you with
anything?
Browsing
That' s all.
(footsteps)
[Jackie] Hello
[Jackie] You're welcome.
(music plays in shop)
[Jackie] So much choice.
[Jackie] Do you play?
Sometimes.
[Jackie] Right.
[Jackie] Here.
Yeah, this might be the one.
Go and try it.
[Jackie] Jim will be finished
in the box in five minutes.
It's soundproof.
Nobody will hear you.
(music plays in shop)
(music plays in shop)
Goodbye
You'll be welcome anytime.
Hmm
(chuckles)
Good on you.
(chuckles)
(traffic noise)
(guitar strums)
Mary loves the grouse
Hides the bottles round the
house
Watches chat shows and the
soaps
Broken-hearted, but she copes
Michael's out of work
Feels he's sinking in the murk
He's unshaven and a mess
Finds it hard some days to
dress
Stevie smashes the delph
Because he can't express
himself
He's consumed by rage
Like his father, at his age
Rita's little child
Has a lovely little smile
This means nothing
to her father
Because he's never even seen
her
(stops playing guitar)
(car drives up)
Just in on the left.
(car drives on)
(car drives up)
[Driver] Thank you
- Just down the back.
[Samanta] Thanks.
(coins rustling)
(people chattering
gate opens)
(footsteps)
(music plays in shop)
[Jackie] Hi, you came back to
us.
[Jackie] Would you like a cup of
tea?
Yeah.
(door opens)
[Jackie] You're in luck.
It's free.
Why don't you give it a try?
(music plays in shop)
I have the perfect piece
of music for you.
Do you take sugar?
No
(door closes)
(click of switch)
Mary loves the grouse
Hides the bottles round the
house
Watches chat shows and the
soaps
Broken-hearted but she copes
Michael's out of work
Feels he's sinking in the murk
He's unshaven and a mess
Finds it hard some days to
dress
Stevie smashes the delph
Because he can't express
himself
He's consumed by rage
Like his father at his age
Rita's little child
Has a lovely little...
(switch clicks)
(music plays in shop)
(truck engine)
(clank of locking gate)
[Samanta] My house.
Everything I had was here.
Can't be here.
[Workman] This is a close site.
It's nothing to you, but,
It's everything to me.
This site's closed, you got to
go.
(somber music)
(somber music)
(dog barking)
(somber music)
(car driving)
(footsteps)
Just reading.
That's allowed, isn't it?
All the times I've seen
you come in here.
Never seen you buy anything.
I'm very selective.
- Can you even play?
- Can you?
I have my BA in music
And you're working
in a music shop?
At least, I don't smell.
[Jacke] You, get back
downstairs.
- [Jo] Look in her rucksack.
- [Jackie] No
Sorry about that.
I'm Jackie.
He's a nice kid, really.
Just a bit frustrated.
Wants to make it in
the music business.
[Jackie] It's either in you,
or it's not.
Would you like a cup of tea?
It's cold out there.
So you can stay as
long as you like.
[Jackie] So
[Jackie] You like the music?
It's all I have.
And Mary Ann.
She's my friend.
I only borrow them.
I bring them back,
I just copy them in my notebook.
It took me a while to realize
your
interpretation of our returns
policy.
[Jackie] How'd you learn to
play?
By myself.
Passing long days.
Soothes the soul.
Samanta
No "H"
Well, it's nice to meet
you, Samanta.
(door opens)
(guitar strums)
You should have been strong
You should have been here
You should have tried harder
To believe in me
I should not feel lost
I should not feel scared
Cause I'm paying the cost
But for what and who cares?
And for all that we had,
damaged and torn
I still want you back
Cause I'm breaking, I'm
heading down
The same trodden path
full of broken stone
Of broken stone
Of broken stone
Of broken stone
(guitar strums)
(dog barks)
[Mary Ann] Samanta
[Mary Ann] Samanta
[Samanta] Should you not
be in a hostel by now?
Marky, found me in the laundry.
He found me too.
Look, if you just did
a little bit for him.
No!
He wanted to know
where you crashed.
It doesn't matter now, it's
gone.
Demolished.
Ignore Marky.
What is he anyway?
He pretends to be the
man, but he's a nobody.
He has Dunce though.
We only had a fella with us.
Why don't you deal?
[Derek] Everyone else does.
Samanta was born a junkie,
so it's not going to happen.
Is it Samanta?
Why don't we go to Rosses Point?
Let's go tomorrow.
What's in Rosses Point?
The nuns used to say that my
mother came from Rosses Point.
Taunt you.
Well, it's nice to dream rather
than remembering our reality.
Please, Samanta.
Come with me tomorrow
to Rosses Point, please.
Tomorrow so.
(sirens wailing)
(dog barking)
(dog barking)
[Samanta] Some place to be born.
[Mary Ann] A million miles from
the nuns.
I know nothing of mine.
Imagine that.
My mother, and my family,
nothing.
Never had a chance, really.
- No
(Mary Ann laughs)
(laughs)
[Mary Ann] That's enough
bleeding peace and quiet.
[Mary Ann] I feel sorry for
Derek.
He had a pension and his family
got it transferred to them.
And now he has nothing
after all these years.
Working for the state?
Isn't that a beautiful name?
Ard Bui
The Yellow Hill?
Gold Hill.
(light music)
Imagine if that was my home.
Just me and my mother.
I could have been
playing around here.
Hopping in and out of gardens.
I always wondered what it would
be
like to live and grow up with a
family.
We go in for a look?
Anyone could own that.
It could be mine
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
Come on, we better go now.
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(siren wailing)
(footsteps)
[Woman] Hey, it's face cream.
I've loads. Women
love face cream
- [Samanta] Thank you
- [Woman] Seeya
(coins clink)
(music playing in store)
(music playing in store)
There's fifty there.
I'd say if you put
in a bit of an effort.
Oh
We never talk.
Imagine if I was from Dublin.
A student, Daddy's a lawyer.
You'll probably do nursing.
Real good time girl.
We're in the nightclub.
It's dark.
It's inviting.
It's a real happy buzz.
And, we spot each other
through the crowd.
What happens next?
Don't forget me.
I won't you.
(trees rustling in wind)
Do you know what I'd love?
What?
Salon, wash, cut and
blow dry, you know.
No worries, yeah yeah.
Style, yeah.
You could do with it as well.
You, look that hair
- My hair's perfect.
- It is not, haven't blessed
washed it.
(laughs)
Why don't we just
start selling now?
Just the lads, to the lads.
- Are you?
- No
No
(laughing) No
Tut
No!
[Jo] Sorry, for what I said.
You're right. It's
just a music shop.
Did your boss send you?
You can record your
music, listen back to it.
Jackie said to give it to you.
Thank you.
I'm going to stay out
of town for now.
Just come in here, do
my pitch at lunchtime.
If I see Marky?
You know nothing, see
nothing, and do nothing.
Look, Mary Ann, just avoid him.
Let's go to Rosses Point.
Let's go to Rosses Point. Come
on,
lets go, come on, come on.
Come on, let's go to Rosses
Point.
Okay, all right
I'll buy you an ice cream, okay?
Lovely.
(laughing)
(ice cream van jingle)
(clinking coins)
(clinking coins)
(seagulls squawking)
(busker singing)
(busker singing)
(buskar playing)
Most don't be listening.
You do.
- Your own songs?
- Mmm
They're lonely.
Well, you really like that
guitar, don't you?
How much is it?
Let me see now
Ah, I'll give it you for 200.
My first installment?
It'll be yours in no time.
[Jackie] Oh why no "h"?
Social services spelled Samanta
wrong on my birth cert.
It didn't matter to them.
Just another day,
just another job.
Just another junkie's kid.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(switch clicks)
People charge on by
There's a stillness in the
being
That makes me, makes me wanna
fly
(click switch to shop PA)
Every time the sun
lights up the moon
Every time the wind
comes crashing through
I'll be thinking of you
Every time I try to understand
Every time I try to break it
down
I think of you
I think of you
I think of you
Rain falls from the heavens
A storm cascades above
Cracks of distant thunder
The tenderness of love
Who cares what brings tomorrow
[Busker] Who is it?
Samanta Nobody
If only I control the power
To crush the hands of time
Every time the sun
lights up the moon
Every time the wind
comes crashing through
I'll be thinking of you
Every time I try to understand
Every time I try to break it
down
I think of you
I think of you
I think of you
(seagulls squawking)
[Mary Ann] I've never seen
you drink before.
[Samanta] Waited four
years for it, not sharing.
[Mary Ann] Got my own.
Back in the home.
They used to call me
Daddy Granddad.
My granddad liked to get
it at home, supposedly.
Could have been dealt
a broken heart instead.
I suppose the trick is.
Not to let it get broken again.
But I would never heed
my own advice.
Would you ever think of
trying to find out more?
Nah
Prefer to dream.
Rather than face
any more reality.
Dance
Come dance with me
Inside our heads, where we can
be
Get lost in song, lost in time
Play the mood, sing the lines
You and me
Is all we need
Come dance
Come dance
Dance with me
We'll find a place out on the
beach
Lay down flowers round our
feet
A hundred candles to light the
sky
For no one else but you and I
Play old songs, our favorite
tunes
Do the moves and act a fool
Watch the sun sink in the
night
Stay out until morning light
Come dance
Come dance
Come dance with me
We can fly out to the moon
Race across the sun
Get high in every moment
Get high and then just run
Chase stars across the sky
Stare out to the sea
It's what you've done
What you've done to me
(music)
(footsteps)
[Marky] If you want to hide.
[Marky] Don't tell anyone where.
[Thug] Will you just deal?
God's honest truth,
I won't do it
There's no God here.
(splashing)
(lighter ignites)
Don't take me for a prick.
[Thug] Will you just say yes,
will ya?
Take it off her.
Take off your jumper.
Take off your fucking jumper!
(lighter ignites)
(flames whooshing)
[Marky] Sell these.
[Marky] And come and find me.
[Marky] Next time, we'll
leave them on you.
(flames crackling)
(footsteps)
(church music)
(footsteps)
You'll have to move on.
I've been doing this
here for ages.
You just have to move on.
Who says?
They say they'll call the
police, if you don't go.
I thought the church looked
after all its children.
Not just the pretty ones.
(footsteps)
(gate opens)
(gate closes)
(music and chatter in
background)
(footsteps)
You look freezing,
where's your coat?
Gone.
Here, take that.
What am I going to do with ya?
Marky found me,
in the cemetery.
He burned it.
[Mary Ann] Oh
Derek blurted it out, I'm sorry.
It doesn't matter now.
Here, let's sit down a minute.
[Mary Ann] Let's sit on Susan.
Well?
Next Monday, they'll
take me in Carraroe.
That's great.
- Aye
- Just keep your head down.
Don't tell anyone.
Not a word
Not even Derek.
I was looking for you.
[Dunce] After the other night.
Guilty, was it?
Is that as good as it gets?
Pushing a young girl around.
Does she know you've
been dealing for him.
It's barely nothing.
[Dunce] That's the problem.
[Dunce] You smoke far more than
you sell.
The debt is going up.
Not down.
You two should disappear
for a while.
- Hey, how are you doing?
- Get the fuck off me.
(indistinct chatter)
(church bells)
(footsteps)
(cars driving past)
(door opens)
[Jackie] Hi, Samanta.
[Jackie] Look, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have touched you.
Just got a fright, that's all.
Do you want to come in and play?
[Samanta] Okay
[Jackie] Go on now, you
can head up there.
(guitar strums)
Dance
Come dance with me
Inside our heads, where we can
be
Get lost in song, lost in time
Play the mood, sing the lines
You and me
Is all we need
Come dance
Come dance
Dance with me
Come dance
Come dance
Come dance with me
(door opens)
You're listening to me?
No!
Yes
This is mine, not yours.
[Jackie] It's brilliant.
[Jo] It is. Samanta it really
is.
Smelly junkie is all you see.
[Jo] At first, yeah. But not
now.
What's changed? I haven't.
- [Jo] I have.
- [Jackie] Let us help.
The failed BA?
Yeah, you could really help me.
(footsteps)
(sigh)
(door closes)
You're not looking so
good now, are you?
Do you think we'd
never meet again?
Mary Ann's with Dunce.
They're waiting for us.
Let's go.
(sirens wailing in distance)
(footsteps)
(dogs barking)
[Samanta] Are you all
right, Mary Ann?
[Marky] Finish it.
- There you go
(Dunce laughing)
[Marky] That's it.
Do her.
Do her or Dunce will do you.
No, don't you? Don't you?
Don't you touch her!
Don't you touch her.
[Samanta] No, leave her, please!
[Marky] Do her or I fucking kill
you!
[Samanta] Leave her! Please no!
- [Samanta] No, no, no, no!
- [Marky] Do her!
- [Mary Ann] No, no, no, no
Derek.
- [Derek] I'm sorry.
(Marky laughing)
Dunce, Dunce, that'll do.
(groans)
You have 48 hours.
I don't get my cash.
[Marky] I fucking do you!
(footsteps)
[Mary Ann] I'm sorry.
[Mary Ann] I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm...
[Mary Ann] I'm so sorry.
(lighter flicks)
(traffic noises in distance)
(traffic noises in distance)
Thank you.
(traffic noises in distance)
Ard Bui is my home.
(traffic noises in distance)
It's yours now, Sam.
(traffic noises in distance)
No more of this.
(traffic noises in distance)
[Mary Ann] Whatever happens.
[Mary Ann] Don't forget your
music.
(traffic noises in distance)
(birds chirping)
(car in distance)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(car drives pass)
[Samanta] Mary Ann?
[Samanta] Why did you
leave me, Mary Ann?
(church bells)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(car driving)
(buzz)
Can I help?
I'm looking for Derek.
Is everything all right?
Just want to talk to Derek.
It's important.
Wait here.
(door closes)
Yes, love.
I'm looking for Derek, ex-army.
I'm Derek. I was in the army.
This is the only Derek living
here.
Right, sorry.
Sorry.
You wouldn't have any
clean clothes, would you?
Would you like a shower, too?
How are you?
[Jackie] You know, you broke my
heart listening to those lyrics.
It made me think of
the life you live.
It's the loneliness.
But the kindness from people
make that difference.
Why don't you come back and
play.
Whenever you want.
[Jackie] We won't listen.
[Jackie] We won't say another
word about anything.
Okay?
(Busker playing song)
Where'd you get that?
I wrote that.
You get it from here?
Samanta Nobody.
I'm sorry, it's fantastic.
Some fools outside playing my
song.
With her own lyrics.
Who the fuck is Samantha Nobody?
I came up with that name.
Yeah well, very fucking funny.
Where's the other interfering
goat?
He visits his daughter
on a Thursday.
You know they stepped over Jess
for a
whole day on Oxford Street in
London.
A whole day.
Homeless.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(footsteps)
(knocking)
I'm sorry, we're full
up for the night.
[Samanta] I'm looking for
Mary-Ann.
She would have started
staying here a while back.
[Man] Yes, she was here for a
few days,
but no, I haven't seen her
since.
[Man] Um, you should try the
meat factory.
- Which way?
- Just
[Man] Straight down the end
there.
[Man] Get down the road, take
a left, and it's just...
[Man] There should be an open
fire door.
[Samanta] Thanks
(traffic noises)
(traffic noises)
(traffic noises)
(traffic noises)
(door opening)
(click)
(errie music)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(errie music)
[Samanta] Mary Ann
(errie music)
(errie music getting louder)
[Samanta] Mary Ann?
[Samanta] Are you here, Mary
Ann?
(errie music)
(footsteps)
Mary Ann?
Mary Ann?
[Samanta] Are you here?
(errie music)
(errie music)
(errie music)
(guitar somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(footsteps)
(birds chirping)
(sirens wailing in distance)
[Derek] Hey, Samanta.
Did you find her?
I've been looking
everywhere for her.
You were never in
the army, were you?
Mary Ann is my only
proper friend.
[Derek] Ever.
I found her.
Overdosed, not sure how.
Is that it for Mary-Ann?
I'm not able.
I know what real
friendship means.
[Derek] I'm sorry
Sometimes, sorry isn't enough.
(paper tearing)
(seagulls squawking in distance)
[Marky] indistinct chatter
Can I talk to you?
[Samanta] In private?
I want to put
everything behind us.
I'll start dealing,
whatever you want.
I'll pay off what Mary
Ann owed you.
And?
I like you.
You know what I want.
[Marky] That happens.
We're all good.
- Not now.
- When?
Meet me at the hostel.
Carraroe
[Samanta] Tomorrow afternoon.
And come alone.
[Samanta] I don't want that
pervert
getting any cheap thrills
(footsteps)
[Samanta] Hi Jackie.
[Jackie] Welcome, Samanta.
[Jackie] How have you been
keeping?
Can I borrow the guitar?
Of course you can.
[Jackie] Is there anything that
I can help you with?
No, I um.
I need to do something
for my friend.
I'll bring it back.
[Jackie] Of course you will.
I know that.
Hold on a second.
Here.
Use this one.
Thanks Jackie.
(footsteps)
(door opening)
(guitar strums)
It's so cold on these streets
I'm tired and I'm beat
With nothing left, I can't
believe it
These dark endless nights,
just the moon
and the streetlights to protect
me
So let's drink it all the way
Let the bottle ease the pain
All these thoughts spinning
round and round
There's nothing I can do
Nothing I can change
To make it go away
But then came you
You reached out a hand
We passed a little time
Went dancing in the sand
It was you
My forever friend
Mary Ann
My Mary Ann
You took me in, held me close,
that mother's love I needed most
Mary Ann
Woo Mary Ann
You had troubles of your own
The demons they took hold
Same old thoughts spinning,
round and round
No more could you take?
Something had to break,
then your sun sank down
But it was you
You reached out a hand
Helped me pass the time
Went dancing in the sand
It was you
My forever friend
My forever friend
Mary Ann
My Mary Ann
You took me in, held me close
That mother's love I needed
most
Mary Ann)
Woo oo, Mary Ann
My Mary Ann
Mary Ann
(last guitar strum)
(seagulls squawking in distance)
Is that about your friend?
You're so like my Jess.
You can keep her guitar.
Thank you.
(traffic noises)
(construction in distance)
(footsteps)
(construction in distance)
[Samanta] It's just in here.
You can sit down.
Got you a can.
Nice one.
(can opening)
(grunts)
Got you something.
[Marky] Hmm
[Marky] like it.
(Marky sigh)
- Take it off when I tell you
to.
- Hmm hmm
Okay?
Tell me one thing, Marky.
Yeah?
Why'd you torment Mary Ann?
You think I'm fucking stupid?
Oh
Go ahead, do it.
If you fucking dare.
Your little keepsake.
Oh, you're sad.
Your poor friend.
She never stopped dealing for
me.
(kicks can)
So go ahead and do it.
Go on, do it. Big girl.
[Marky] Big girl.
Stop. Get off me
[Marky] Go on, get off me.
[Marky] Get off me.
You are nothing.
(thud)
(thud on ground)
(pipe dropping on ground)
He'll never touch you again.
(footsteps)
(lighter ignites)
(footsteps)
(birds chirping)
(crow cawing)
(crow cawing)
(footsteps)
(door opening)
(door creaking)
(door squeaking and closes)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(lighter ignites)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(music fades)
(music in shop)
[Jackie] Samanta
[Jackie] I knew you'd be back to
us.
I found a new place.
Away from that old life.
[Jackie] I'm so glad, Samanta.
I'm so glad for you.
Well done
When I play.
I go somewhere.
And it helps for that moment.
When I play for others.
It helps so much more.
I think I'm ready for that now.
Will you help me?
Just waiting to.
(music)
(music)
For all the things
that came between
The moon and you
The moon and me
Fallen bridges
Broken stone
That's left us
Where we are
For all that's shattered
For all that's lost
Let me take them
By the wind
And rise up
Rise up
Rise up
You've got to rise up
Got to rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
(music)
(piano music)
(guitar strumming)
Gonna to find myself a boat
Cast out from the bay
At first light in the morning
Of the brightest summer's day
And I'm taking nothing with me
But my songs, my
thoughts, my fears
Won't let hopelessness define
me
There may be tears
I'll sail across the ocean
With blue skies overhead
A summer wind behind me
Nothing left to be said
So come a little closer
And I'll whisper in your ear
I'll tell you about tomorrow
And all the things I'll see
I'll sing out to the heavens
I'll sing out to the stars
With nothing left to bite me
The ocean will heal the scars
Someday
Maybe someday
Maybe someday
Maybe someday
Someday
Someday
Someday
Gonna find myself a boat
(bird flutters past)
(footsteps)
(birds flutter away)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(seagulls squawking)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
Thanks
(baby laughing)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
[Samanta] Hey, Mary Ann
Hi, Samanta
You near in front today.
[Mary Ann] Got here early.
[Mary Ann] This is my new
friend here Samanta, Derek.
Ex-army, Derek.
- 27 years in all.
- In the Lebanon.
[Derek] That was some
sunset, let me tell you.
[Mary Ann] Soldier, protector
of the country.
He's in the serviceman's
mission.
Nice place, good people.
I heard that.
Hostel yourself?
No, no institutional
living, our Samanta
She doesn't even take welfare
You a drinker?
Long time now. You?
No drink, our Samanta.
[Mary Ann] She's a musician.
Pay no heed to this aul one.
What a voice.
She'd make loads if
only she'd busk.
[Samanta] Not now/
When I was a kid, vodka.
It's Marky.
(footsteps)
[Marky] New man or new punter,
huh?
[Marky] Catch you later.
(music)
(footsteps)
(coins dropping)
(music)
(coins dropping)
- Thank you
(music)
(Puff)
(Puff, puff)
(seagulls squawking, dog barks)
(footsteps)
[Samanta] Did you not get a bed?
Five past six, and it
was all full. Thank you.
Keep seeing Marky around town.
Thank you.
You're not using, are you?
Not for ages.
Why are you so kind to me?
Go on, sing me a verse.
Go on.
Sing that last one that
was really beautiful.
Sing me a verse. Go on
Dance
Come dance with me
Inside our heads,
where we can be
Get lost in song, lost in time
Play the mood, sing the lines
You and me, is all we need
Come dance
Come dance
Dance with me
Come dance
Come dance
Come dance with me
it's beautiful.
Laundrette.
(traffic noises)
(footsteps)
[Betty] Hey, Samanta
[Betty] There's one free
down the back.
Cold
[Betty] The heat of the machines
will soon warm you.
(hum of machines)
(footsteps)
Samanta?
(muffled) Around the back.
Is everything okay here?
[Marky] Everything's fine.
[Marky] Hunky dory.
[Betty] You can't go back there.
(hum of machines)
(Marky laughs)
[Marky] You hiding from me.
Never hide from such a
big man like you, Marky.
[Marky] Always with the
smart answers.
[Marky] Mary Ann owes me 800
and you guaranteed it.
You could, always
deal a little weed.
Don't think it's embarrassing
me having to keep asking.
I'm not selling.
Look
It's a game.
It's all a game, you, me, them.
[Marky] It's a game.
[Marky] And don't have me
come looking for you again.
[Betty] Are you okay?
He's nothing.
(traffic noises)
(door opens)
(door closes)
(music plays in shop)
(music plays in shop)
(music plays in shop)
[Jo] Can I help you with
anything?
Browsing
That' s all.
(footsteps)
[Jackie] Hello
[Jackie] You're welcome.
(music plays in shop)
[Jackie] So much choice.
[Jackie] Do you play?
Sometimes.
[Jackie] Right.
[Jackie] Here.
Yeah, this might be the one.
Go and try it.
[Jackie] Jim will be finished
in the box in five minutes.
It's soundproof.
Nobody will hear you.
(music plays in shop)
(music plays in shop)
Goodbye
You'll be welcome anytime.
Hmm
(chuckles)
Good on you.
(chuckles)
(traffic noise)
(guitar strums)
Mary loves the grouse
Hides the bottles round the
house
Watches chat shows and the
soaps
Broken-hearted, but she copes
Michael's out of work
Feels he's sinking in the murk
He's unshaven and a mess
Finds it hard some days to
dress
Stevie smashes the delph
Because he can't express
himself
He's consumed by rage
Like his father, at his age
Rita's little child
Has a lovely little smile
This means nothing
to her father
Because he's never even seen
her
(stops playing guitar)
(car drives up)
Just in on the left.
(car drives on)
(car drives up)
[Driver] Thank you
- Just down the back.
[Samanta] Thanks.
(coins rustling)
(people chattering
gate opens)
(footsteps)
(music plays in shop)
[Jackie] Hi, you came back to
us.
[Jackie] Would you like a cup of
tea?
Yeah.
(door opens)
[Jackie] You're in luck.
It's free.
Why don't you give it a try?
(music plays in shop)
I have the perfect piece
of music for you.
Do you take sugar?
No
(door closes)
(click of switch)
Mary loves the grouse
Hides the bottles round the
house
Watches chat shows and the
soaps
Broken-hearted but she copes
Michael's out of work
Feels he's sinking in the murk
He's unshaven and a mess
Finds it hard some days to
dress
Stevie smashes the delph
Because he can't express
himself
He's consumed by rage
Like his father at his age
Rita's little child
Has a lovely little...
(switch clicks)
(music plays in shop)
(truck engine)
(clank of locking gate)
[Samanta] My house.
Everything I had was here.
Can't be here.
[Workman] This is a close site.
It's nothing to you, but,
It's everything to me.
This site's closed, you got to
go.
(somber music)
(somber music)
(dog barking)
(somber music)
(car driving)
(footsteps)
Just reading.
That's allowed, isn't it?
All the times I've seen
you come in here.
Never seen you buy anything.
I'm very selective.
- Can you even play?
- Can you?
I have my BA in music
And you're working
in a music shop?
At least, I don't smell.
[Jacke] You, get back
downstairs.
- [Jo] Look in her rucksack.
- [Jackie] No
Sorry about that.
I'm Jackie.
He's a nice kid, really.
Just a bit frustrated.
Wants to make it in
the music business.
[Jackie] It's either in you,
or it's not.
Would you like a cup of tea?
It's cold out there.
So you can stay as
long as you like.
[Jackie] So
[Jackie] You like the music?
It's all I have.
And Mary Ann.
She's my friend.
I only borrow them.
I bring them back,
I just copy them in my notebook.
It took me a while to realize
your
interpretation of our returns
policy.
[Jackie] How'd you learn to
play?
By myself.
Passing long days.
Soothes the soul.
Samanta
No "H"
Well, it's nice to meet
you, Samanta.
(door opens)
(guitar strums)
You should have been strong
You should have been here
You should have tried harder
To believe in me
I should not feel lost
I should not feel scared
Cause I'm paying the cost
But for what and who cares?
And for all that we had,
damaged and torn
I still want you back
Cause I'm breaking, I'm
heading down
The same trodden path
full of broken stone
Of broken stone
Of broken stone
Of broken stone
(guitar strums)
(dog barks)
[Mary Ann] Samanta
[Mary Ann] Samanta
[Samanta] Should you not
be in a hostel by now?
Marky, found me in the laundry.
He found me too.
Look, if you just did
a little bit for him.
No!
He wanted to know
where you crashed.
It doesn't matter now, it's
gone.
Demolished.
Ignore Marky.
What is he anyway?
He pretends to be the
man, but he's a nobody.
He has Dunce though.
We only had a fella with us.
Why don't you deal?
[Derek] Everyone else does.
Samanta was born a junkie,
so it's not going to happen.
Is it Samanta?
Why don't we go to Rosses Point?
Let's go tomorrow.
What's in Rosses Point?
The nuns used to say that my
mother came from Rosses Point.
Taunt you.
Well, it's nice to dream rather
than remembering our reality.
Please, Samanta.
Come with me tomorrow
to Rosses Point, please.
Tomorrow so.
(sirens wailing)
(dog barking)
(dog barking)
[Samanta] Some place to be born.
[Mary Ann] A million miles from
the nuns.
I know nothing of mine.
Imagine that.
My mother, and my family,
nothing.
Never had a chance, really.
- No
(Mary Ann laughs)
(laughs)
[Mary Ann] That's enough
bleeding peace and quiet.
[Mary Ann] I feel sorry for
Derek.
He had a pension and his family
got it transferred to them.
And now he has nothing
after all these years.
Working for the state?
Isn't that a beautiful name?
Ard Bui
The Yellow Hill?
Gold Hill.
(light music)
Imagine if that was my home.
Just me and my mother.
I could have been
playing around here.
Hopping in and out of gardens.
I always wondered what it would
be
like to live and grow up with a
family.
We go in for a look?
Anyone could own that.
It could be mine
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
Come on, we better go now.
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(siren wailing)
(footsteps)
[Woman] Hey, it's face cream.
I've loads. Women
love face cream
- [Samanta] Thank you
- [Woman] Seeya
(coins clink)
(music playing in store)
(music playing in store)
There's fifty there.
I'd say if you put
in a bit of an effort.
Oh
We never talk.
Imagine if I was from Dublin.
A student, Daddy's a lawyer.
You'll probably do nursing.
Real good time girl.
We're in the nightclub.
It's dark.
It's inviting.
It's a real happy buzz.
And, we spot each other
through the crowd.
What happens next?
Don't forget me.
I won't you.
(trees rustling in wind)
Do you know what I'd love?
What?
Salon, wash, cut and
blow dry, you know.
No worries, yeah yeah.
Style, yeah.
You could do with it as well.
You, look that hair
- My hair's perfect.
- It is not, haven't blessed
washed it.
(laughs)
Why don't we just
start selling now?
Just the lads, to the lads.
- Are you?
- No
No
(laughing) No
Tut
No!
[Jo] Sorry, for what I said.
You're right. It's
just a music shop.
Did your boss send you?
You can record your
music, listen back to it.
Jackie said to give it to you.
Thank you.
I'm going to stay out
of town for now.
Just come in here, do
my pitch at lunchtime.
If I see Marky?
You know nothing, see
nothing, and do nothing.
Look, Mary Ann, just avoid him.
Let's go to Rosses Point.
Let's go to Rosses Point. Come
on,
lets go, come on, come on.
Come on, let's go to Rosses
Point.
Okay, all right
I'll buy you an ice cream, okay?
Lovely.
(laughing)
(ice cream van jingle)
(clinking coins)
(clinking coins)
(seagulls squawking)
(busker singing)
(busker singing)
(buskar playing)
Most don't be listening.
You do.
- Your own songs?
- Mmm
They're lonely.
Well, you really like that
guitar, don't you?
How much is it?
Let me see now
Ah, I'll give it you for 200.
My first installment?
It'll be yours in no time.
[Jackie] Oh why no "h"?
Social services spelled Samanta
wrong on my birth cert.
It didn't matter to them.
Just another day,
just another job.
Just another junkie's kid.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(switch clicks)
People charge on by
There's a stillness in the
being
That makes me, makes me wanna
fly
(click switch to shop PA)
Every time the sun
lights up the moon
Every time the wind
comes crashing through
I'll be thinking of you
Every time I try to understand
Every time I try to break it
down
I think of you
I think of you
I think of you
Rain falls from the heavens
A storm cascades above
Cracks of distant thunder
The tenderness of love
Who cares what brings tomorrow
[Busker] Who is it?
Samanta Nobody
If only I control the power
To crush the hands of time
Every time the sun
lights up the moon
Every time the wind
comes crashing through
I'll be thinking of you
Every time I try to understand
Every time I try to break it
down
I think of you
I think of you
I think of you
(seagulls squawking)
[Mary Ann] I've never seen
you drink before.
[Samanta] Waited four
years for it, not sharing.
[Mary Ann] Got my own.
Back in the home.
They used to call me
Daddy Granddad.
My granddad liked to get
it at home, supposedly.
Could have been dealt
a broken heart instead.
I suppose the trick is.
Not to let it get broken again.
But I would never heed
my own advice.
Would you ever think of
trying to find out more?
Nah
Prefer to dream.
Rather than face
any more reality.
Dance
Come dance with me
Inside our heads, where we can
be
Get lost in song, lost in time
Play the mood, sing the lines
You and me
Is all we need
Come dance
Come dance
Dance with me
We'll find a place out on the
beach
Lay down flowers round our
feet
A hundred candles to light the
sky
For no one else but you and I
Play old songs, our favorite
tunes
Do the moves and act a fool
Watch the sun sink in the
night
Stay out until morning light
Come dance
Come dance
Come dance with me
We can fly out to the moon
Race across the sun
Get high in every moment
Get high and then just run
Chase stars across the sky
Stare out to the sea
It's what you've done
What you've done to me
(music)
(footsteps)
[Marky] If you want to hide.
[Marky] Don't tell anyone where.
[Thug] Will you just deal?
God's honest truth,
I won't do it
There's no God here.
(splashing)
(lighter ignites)
Don't take me for a prick.
[Thug] Will you just say yes,
will ya?
Take it off her.
Take off your jumper.
Take off your fucking jumper!
(lighter ignites)
(flames whooshing)
[Marky] Sell these.
[Marky] And come and find me.
[Marky] Next time, we'll
leave them on you.
(flames crackling)
(footsteps)
(church music)
(footsteps)
You'll have to move on.
I've been doing this
here for ages.
You just have to move on.
Who says?
They say they'll call the
police, if you don't go.
I thought the church looked
after all its children.
Not just the pretty ones.
(footsteps)
(gate opens)
(gate closes)
(music and chatter in
background)
(footsteps)
You look freezing,
where's your coat?
Gone.
Here, take that.
What am I going to do with ya?
Marky found me,
in the cemetery.
He burned it.
[Mary Ann] Oh
Derek blurted it out, I'm sorry.
It doesn't matter now.
Here, let's sit down a minute.
[Mary Ann] Let's sit on Susan.
Well?
Next Monday, they'll
take me in Carraroe.
That's great.
- Aye
- Just keep your head down.
Don't tell anyone.
Not a word
Not even Derek.
I was looking for you.
[Dunce] After the other night.
Guilty, was it?
Is that as good as it gets?
Pushing a young girl around.
Does she know you've
been dealing for him.
It's barely nothing.
[Dunce] That's the problem.
[Dunce] You smoke far more than
you sell.
The debt is going up.
Not down.
You two should disappear
for a while.
- Hey, how are you doing?
- Get the fuck off me.
(indistinct chatter)
(church bells)
(footsteps)
(cars driving past)
(door opens)
[Jackie] Hi, Samanta.
[Jackie] Look, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have touched you.
Just got a fright, that's all.
Do you want to come in and play?
[Samanta] Okay
[Jackie] Go on now, you
can head up there.
(guitar strums)
Dance
Come dance with me
Inside our heads, where we can
be
Get lost in song, lost in time
Play the mood, sing the lines
You and me
Is all we need
Come dance
Come dance
Dance with me
Come dance
Come dance
Come dance with me
(door opens)
You're listening to me?
No!
Yes
This is mine, not yours.
[Jackie] It's brilliant.
[Jo] It is. Samanta it really
is.
Smelly junkie is all you see.
[Jo] At first, yeah. But not
now.
What's changed? I haven't.
- [Jo] I have.
- [Jackie] Let us help.
The failed BA?
Yeah, you could really help me.
(footsteps)
(sigh)
(door closes)
You're not looking so
good now, are you?
Do you think we'd
never meet again?
Mary Ann's with Dunce.
They're waiting for us.
Let's go.
(sirens wailing in distance)
(footsteps)
(dogs barking)
[Samanta] Are you all
right, Mary Ann?
[Marky] Finish it.
- There you go
(Dunce laughing)
[Marky] That's it.
Do her.
Do her or Dunce will do you.
No, don't you? Don't you?
Don't you touch her!
Don't you touch her.
[Samanta] No, leave her, please!
[Marky] Do her or I fucking kill
you!
[Samanta] Leave her! Please no!
- [Samanta] No, no, no, no!
- [Marky] Do her!
- [Mary Ann] No, no, no, no
Derek.
- [Derek] I'm sorry.
(Marky laughing)
Dunce, Dunce, that'll do.
(groans)
You have 48 hours.
I don't get my cash.
[Marky] I fucking do you!
(footsteps)
[Mary Ann] I'm sorry.
[Mary Ann] I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm...
[Mary Ann] I'm so sorry.
(lighter flicks)
(traffic noises in distance)
(traffic noises in distance)
Thank you.
(traffic noises in distance)
Ard Bui is my home.
(traffic noises in distance)
It's yours now, Sam.
(traffic noises in distance)
No more of this.
(traffic noises in distance)
[Mary Ann] Whatever happens.
[Mary Ann] Don't forget your
music.
(traffic noises in distance)
(birds chirping)
(car in distance)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(car drives pass)
[Samanta] Mary Ann?
[Samanta] Why did you
leave me, Mary Ann?
(church bells)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(car driving)
(buzz)
Can I help?
I'm looking for Derek.
Is everything all right?
Just want to talk to Derek.
It's important.
Wait here.
(door closes)
Yes, love.
I'm looking for Derek, ex-army.
I'm Derek. I was in the army.
This is the only Derek living
here.
Right, sorry.
Sorry.
You wouldn't have any
clean clothes, would you?
Would you like a shower, too?
How are you?
[Jackie] You know, you broke my
heart listening to those lyrics.
It made me think of
the life you live.
It's the loneliness.
But the kindness from people
make that difference.
Why don't you come back and
play.
Whenever you want.
[Jackie] We won't listen.
[Jackie] We won't say another
word about anything.
Okay?
(Busker playing song)
Where'd you get that?
I wrote that.
You get it from here?
Samanta Nobody.
I'm sorry, it's fantastic.
Some fools outside playing my
song.
With her own lyrics.
Who the fuck is Samantha Nobody?
I came up with that name.
Yeah well, very fucking funny.
Where's the other interfering
goat?
He visits his daughter
on a Thursday.
You know they stepped over Jess
for a
whole day on Oxford Street in
London.
A whole day.
Homeless.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(footsteps)
(knocking)
I'm sorry, we're full
up for the night.
[Samanta] I'm looking for
Mary-Ann.
She would have started
staying here a while back.
[Man] Yes, she was here for a
few days,
but no, I haven't seen her
since.
[Man] Um, you should try the
meat factory.
- Which way?
- Just
[Man] Straight down the end
there.
[Man] Get down the road, take
a left, and it's just...
[Man] There should be an open
fire door.
[Samanta] Thanks
(traffic noises)
(traffic noises)
(traffic noises)
(traffic noises)
(door opening)
(click)
(errie music)
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
(errie music)
[Samanta] Mary Ann
(errie music)
(errie music getting louder)
[Samanta] Mary Ann?
[Samanta] Are you here, Mary
Ann?
(errie music)
(footsteps)
Mary Ann?
Mary Ann?
[Samanta] Are you here?
(errie music)
(errie music)
(errie music)
(guitar somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(somber music)
(guitar somber music)
(footsteps)
(birds chirping)
(sirens wailing in distance)
[Derek] Hey, Samanta.
Did you find her?
I've been looking
everywhere for her.
You were never in
the army, were you?
Mary Ann is my only
proper friend.
[Derek] Ever.
I found her.
Overdosed, not sure how.
Is that it for Mary-Ann?
I'm not able.
I know what real
friendship means.
[Derek] I'm sorry
Sometimes, sorry isn't enough.
(paper tearing)
(seagulls squawking in distance)
[Marky] indistinct chatter
Can I talk to you?
[Samanta] In private?
I want to put
everything behind us.
I'll start dealing,
whatever you want.
I'll pay off what Mary
Ann owed you.
And?
I like you.
You know what I want.
[Marky] That happens.
We're all good.
- Not now.
- When?
Meet me at the hostel.
Carraroe
[Samanta] Tomorrow afternoon.
And come alone.
[Samanta] I don't want that
pervert
getting any cheap thrills
(footsteps)
[Samanta] Hi Jackie.
[Jackie] Welcome, Samanta.
[Jackie] How have you been
keeping?
Can I borrow the guitar?
Of course you can.
[Jackie] Is there anything that
I can help you with?
No, I um.
I need to do something
for my friend.
I'll bring it back.
[Jackie] Of course you will.
I know that.
Hold on a second.
Here.
Use this one.
Thanks Jackie.
(footsteps)
(door opening)
(guitar strums)
It's so cold on these streets
I'm tired and I'm beat
With nothing left, I can't
believe it
These dark endless nights,
just the moon
and the streetlights to protect
me
So let's drink it all the way
Let the bottle ease the pain
All these thoughts spinning
round and round
There's nothing I can do
Nothing I can change
To make it go away
But then came you
You reached out a hand
We passed a little time
Went dancing in the sand
It was you
My forever friend
Mary Ann
My Mary Ann
You took me in, held me close,
that mother's love I needed most
Mary Ann
Woo Mary Ann
You had troubles of your own
The demons they took hold
Same old thoughts spinning,
round and round
No more could you take?
Something had to break,
then your sun sank down
But it was you
You reached out a hand
Helped me pass the time
Went dancing in the sand
It was you
My forever friend
My forever friend
Mary Ann
My Mary Ann
You took me in, held me close
That mother's love I needed
most
Mary Ann)
Woo oo, Mary Ann
My Mary Ann
Mary Ann
(last guitar strum)
(seagulls squawking in distance)
Is that about your friend?
You're so like my Jess.
You can keep her guitar.
Thank you.
(traffic noises)
(construction in distance)
(footsteps)
(construction in distance)
[Samanta] It's just in here.
You can sit down.
Got you a can.
Nice one.
(can opening)
(grunts)
Got you something.
[Marky] Hmm
[Marky] like it.
(Marky sigh)
- Take it off when I tell you
to.
- Hmm hmm
Okay?
Tell me one thing, Marky.
Yeah?
Why'd you torment Mary Ann?
You think I'm fucking stupid?
Oh
Go ahead, do it.
If you fucking dare.
Your little keepsake.
Oh, you're sad.
Your poor friend.
She never stopped dealing for
me.
(kicks can)
So go ahead and do it.
Go on, do it. Big girl.
[Marky] Big girl.
Stop. Get off me
[Marky] Go on, get off me.
[Marky] Get off me.
You are nothing.
(thud)
(thud on ground)
(pipe dropping on ground)
He'll never touch you again.
(footsteps)
(lighter ignites)
(footsteps)
(birds chirping)
(crow cawing)
(crow cawing)
(footsteps)
(door opening)
(door creaking)
(door squeaking and closes)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(lighter ignites)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(soft music)
(music fades)
(music in shop)
[Jackie] Samanta
[Jackie] I knew you'd be back to
us.
I found a new place.
Away from that old life.
[Jackie] I'm so glad, Samanta.
I'm so glad for you.
Well done
When I play.
I go somewhere.
And it helps for that moment.
When I play for others.
It helps so much more.
I think I'm ready for that now.
Will you help me?
Just waiting to.
(music)
(music)
For all the things
that came between
The moon and you
The moon and me
Fallen bridges
Broken stone
That's left us
Where we are
For all that's shattered
For all that's lost
Let me take them
By the wind
And rise up
Rise up
Rise up
You've got to rise up
Got to rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
(music)
(piano music)