the movie's presence at the festival represented a big moment for its director, alice troughton, as we have been finding out. your father is the most revered writer in the country. my husband, the subject of your thesis? alice troughton�*s feature film debut is a thriller where words and ideas are dangerous currency. rising irish actor daryl mccormack plays an aspiring writer who takes up residence at a famous novelist�*s house in order to tutor his son. it isn't long however before buried secrets begin to emerge. when you said i wasn't the first, what did you mean? what really drew me to playing this character was the fact that i just saw a hungry young man who is walking into a world that he is not fully embodied yet, and i think you just have a great thriller in that he ends up right beside his hero quite quickly. the film talks about how we idolise people as well and how that can be both a good and bad thing.