What will people say about us after we are gone? Neal MacGregor, an English artist, died alone and prematurely at the age of 44 in a stone hen-house he couldn't stand up in on a secluded island, where he lived without running water, power, or heat. During Neal's eight years on the island, the Gaelic-speaking islanders knew very little about him. Who was this Stranger, exactly? Was he, as some islanders suspected, a British spy spying on IRA gun-running routes? Was he attempting to seize the island's control? Was he, as some suspected, insane? Was he looking for isolation, or was he looking for something else? Neal left behind a jigsaw of missing parts in the form of volumes of wonderfully painted notebooks and secret journals, and this gorgeous mysterious film compassionately draws an image of a man on the brink, both physically and emotionally, and the insular island community in which he resided.
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What will people say about us after we are gone? Neal MacGregor, an English artist, died alone and prematurely at the age of 44 in a stone hen-house he couldn't stand up in on a secluded island, where he lived without running water, power, or heat. During Neal's eight years on the island, the Gaelic-speaking islanders knew very little about him. Who was this Stranger, exactly? Was he, as some islanders suspected, a British spy spying on IRA gun-running routes? Was he attempting to seize the island's control? Was he, as some suspected, insane? Was he looking for isolation, or was he looking for something else? Neal left behind a jigsaw of missing parts in the form of volumes of wonderfully painted notebooks and secret journals, and this gorgeous mysterious film compassionately draws an image of a man on the brink, both physically and emotionally, and the insular island community in which he resided.
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