![]() As the boisterous narrative increasingly focuses its attention on Trevor's past and the mysterious stirrings of his psyche, Lorcan Roche 's The Companion becomes a darkly humorous tale of obsession. A bizarre yet touching friendship develops between Trevor and Ed-both men are equally in need of someone who can show them umderstanding and compassion. ![]() They may live in the same luxurious apartment, but Ed and his parents barely interact. Ed's morbidly obese, sexually perverse mother retired to her bed after a skiing incident ten years ago. Ed's father, a guilt-ridden judge, rarely emerges from his dusty study. ![]() Ed's family is very wealthy and very dysfunctional. In this subversive comic extravaganza, Dublin-born film-school dropout Trevor finds himself washed up in New York where he answers an ad to work as a companion to Ed, a wheelchair-bound teenager with muscular dystrophy. ![]()
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