After an overdose, Michael's mother is dead and his father has been sent to prison because of drugs too. He wants to make a better life. One day, all his dreams and plans break down when he is caught with a drugs bag that doesn't belong to him. His life turns to be a nightmare.
[Frank] Berry directs with the eye of a documentary maker but could show plenty of others a thing or two about keeping the tension in a drama from start to finish.
Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.
Frank Berry's Irish prison film Michael Inside... is a stripped back and unrelenting take on the sub-genre focusing on the long-term effects of incarceration and drug involvement on Ireland's youth