01 — Brighton to Glasgow
Departure
Departure
The journey begins at home. Leaving Brighton with Mum, we move north through familiar cities and long train corridors. There’s an in-between feeling: bags on laps, changing platforms, quiet anticipation. Each transfer marks a step further from the domestic and closer to something older, half-remembered.
Glasgow to Belfast
Crossing
Crossing
In Glasgow, the pace pauses. Then the route turns west: train to Ayr, coach to Stranraer, ferry from Cairnryan. The ferry becomes a threshold – sea and weather forming a border that’s felt more than seen. This section holds the crossing itself, where land gives way to motion, and anticipation builds.
Portaferry
Arrival
Arrival
Usually, we arrive together – me, Mum, and Pops – in a town shaped by memory. Portaferry familiar, and somehow distant. The journey ends here not with spectacle, but with recognition: the ordinary power of standing still with the people who brought you here.
Halfway Home
A record of movement and memory
A record of movement and memory
This film threads the fragments: trains, roads, ferries, waiting rooms. It weaves voice and silence, image and time. It’s not just a document of where we went – it’s a reflection on belonging, the edges of identity, and the spaces we pass through to find each other.