The Flats

The Troubles may have ended three decades ago, but in the run-down Belfast housing estate called The Flats, their legacy lives on in murals extolling resistance, and in the memories and scarred psyches of residents like Joe McNally. Now a pensioner, Joe was nine when his adolescent uncle was murdered by the notorious Shankill Butchers gang, shot in the head just for being Catholic. A few months later, he threw his first Molotov cocktail into the cab of a truck. In THE FLATS, we meet Joe and his neighbours, struggling, bruised and beaten in their own ways, in a world still touched by the past.