Albert Yarr is a Protestant outsider in predominantly Catholic Ballyboe. Teetering on the edge of madness, Yarr is momentarily resurrected by a film producer, who enlists his help in a documentary. Yet the stranger's attentions only serve to precipitate Yarr's own psychological disintegration.
Not my favourite Leitch but with an unpleasant physicality to it. The edition I got from the library was very weirdly interlaced with 30 pages from a completely different novel about the IRA.