Soundtrack by Séamus Egan

Music by Sam Amidon and Assembly

Jack (Billy Smith) has fulfilled the dream of his late father, a Boston cop, by becoming a decorated firefighter. But in the aftermath of a blaze that claimed his closest friend, he’s struggling to make sense of his life, and of his feelings for a complicated young woman on a journey of her own.

Niall (Sam Amidon), an accomplished fiddle player, is offered the chance of a lifetime: he can have everything his father ever wanted for him, if he gives up everything he ever wanted for himself.

An “American wake” was a party, held on the eve of an Irish immigrant’s departure. Joyous and yet infused with the grief of parting, it marked the moment when one life ended and another began.