As the Beast Sleeps

Kyle is loyal to his wife his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union and they love him as a husband a brother and a son but with changing times and the emerging peace process Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition uncertainty and betrayal In a world turned upside down peace and brutality walk sidebyside while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order As the Beast Sleeps is set in Belfasts Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an uptotheminute urgency the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current ceasefire