Samuel O'Shea, a university professor of poetry, has seen better days. More disturbingly, he has begun seeing things to the sounds of Leonard Cohen tunes. When Samuel learns he has a brain tumor, he retreats to his family shack in remote Ireland, where he begins work on that great novel he always meant to write. Surprisingly, or not, he meets and falls in love with a younger and unexpected woman. With a soundtrack made up of Leonard Cohen's songs, with a superb performance by Gabriel Byrne, and a script that moves between the hero's consciousness to the unflattering reality that awaits him - Matthew Bissonnette presents a dramedy that looks compassionately at the male psyche.