Daniel Brennan, deaf since birth, is released from prison ten years after serving time for murdering his best friend, Ray, who is also deaf. Reintegrating into society will not be easy, as neither his daughter Carly, nor his parents, nor any of the members of the deaf community, especially Christine and Miri, Ray's wife and daughter, respectively, want anything to do with him.
This British miniseries, composed of five episodes, is a surprising dramatic gem that invites us to an immersive exercise in the conflicts, ghosts and hopes of deaf people. Many of the characters in the story are deaf and, as such, communicate mainly by signing, so that subtitles predominate to follow their dialogues, as well as other guttural sounds to make themselves understood. In addition to this formal reality, a true exercise in realism to present difficult situations of everyday life, there is the ideation of complex characters. Especially in Meeting there are wounded characters, dragging a lot of pain from the past, frightened characters, afraid of the present and the future, misunderstood.
The pace is generally slow. Although there are some, there are few sequences of action and acceleration of events. Dialogue and, even more, silences prevail. But, despite all this, the script is skillful enough to generate plot twists, unexpected surprises, distressing situations, arguments, screams and fights. Thus, despite these moments of transit through narrative wastelands and valleys, the emotion does not wane nor does it end up generating boredom.
Although the story begins linearly, it is soon structured in different temporal moments. Daniel Brennan's difficulties in reintegrating into society are overlapped with scenes of what happened ten years earlier (that which led him to prison) and others referring to a more remote past of the protagonists. The performances, of course, are magnificent, and it is worth mentioning that of Daniel, a truly tormented character, with continuous mood swings and no self-control, and that of his daughter Carly, who both desires and rejects an exemplary father, while also trying to find her place in the world.
Series
Español 
English 
Italiano