Volta™ – Irish Independent Film Online

Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two, hapless, desperate junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. A stylised, downbeat physical comedy, the film follows the boys over the course of a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. The difference today is that Adam and Paul – already near rock bottom – have finally run out of luck, credit and friends. From the moment they wake in a field by the airport to discover that someone has glued one of them to an old mattress, there is a feeling that this is not going to be their day. Desperation increases with the collapse of each plan they make, and the realisation that even those who used to love them no longer want them around. At the same time, for the audience, their failure to score is also the source of all hope: perhaps fate intends for Adam and Paul to get clean; maybe they will find their way back to the lover and child they share. Although, ultimately, things don’t work out that way, ‘Adam and Paul’ is not a film without hope; it is a tender but unsentimental testament to the persistence of the human spirit in even the most damaged and marginal of people.

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Follow a day in the life of two Dublin heroin addicts, Adam and Paul.