Helen ( Claire Foy ) is not the kind of woman to wallow in her emotions. After her beloved father ( Brendan Gleeson ) passes, she insists she’s not moping (“Dad would hate any kind of moping”); when loved ones ask if she’s okay, she dismisses their concerns and tells them she’s just fine.

But a grief as large as Helen’s does not simply disappear because it’s denied language or tears. It simply finds other methods of expression. A few months after her dad’s death, Helen adopts a goshawk, one of the birds of prey she and he so used to love spotting on their bird watching expeditions, and immediately makes it her whole world.

Helen ( Claire Foy ) is not the kind of woman to wallow in her emotions. After her beloved father ( Brendan Gleeson ) passes, she insists she’s not moping (“Da

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