The directorial debut of British photographer Perry Ogden, Pavee Lackeen is a slice of life in a neorealist vein about a family of Irish travellers living in squalor in caravans parked beside the road in a Dublin suburb. Though the film is in English, it is subtitled. The chief character is 10-year-old Winnie, one of the 10 children of a chainsmoking alcoholic single mother. As a result of her frequent fights, Winnie is excluded from school and spends her time shoplifting. On the strength of this movie, they appear to be outcasts with no distinctive culture or individual identity. Various people, officially and unofficially, are trying to help them, but their assistance is halfhearted, ineffectual and usually rejected. Most of the cast are from the same family, apparently acting out versions of their own lives; the result is both unrevealing and depressing.