Set in the early-mid 1990's, RESTLESS SOULS tells the story of the
friendship between three wayward Irish lads in their late twenties.
After three years under siege in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, Tom
returns to Dublin a brittle, haunted shell of his former self, suffering
from severe PTSD. Karl and Gus meet him at the airport, knowing they're
unqualified to help their best friend yet determined to somehow see him
through the darkness. Grasping at straws, they embark on a journey for
an unlikely cure on the other side of the world, an experimental PTSD
clinic on the California coast called RESTLESS SOULS. A wry, shambolic
road trip that's at turns tremendously moving and darkly funny, Restless
Souls wrestles with larger themes and meditations on grief and PTSD, and
on the way our memories simultaneously comfort and restrict us from
growing up and moving on. Author Dan Sheehan skillfully moves between
ribald humor and aching pathos to ask a question we can all relate to:
in the process of growing up, how do we not also grow apart?