Bad Boy Buck

21m • Thriller, Suspense • 2022

After a one night stand with another man, a married farmer attempts to hide the affair from his family as the truth drives him to madness.

For unhappy farmer Buck Holmes, country life is tough and it’s all he’s ever known. He lives in a small town in rural Ireland with his wife Gale and their young daughter Molly. At dinner, Gale tells Buck that she’d like to try for another child, which Buck agrees to. But after a one-night stand with a foreign man named Orm Dod, everything changes.

Ashamed by the sexual encounter, Buck ignores Orm’s initial attempt to make contact, but ultimately agrees to meet him and talk. It is then Orm tells Buck that he’s pregnant with his child. Outraged by Orm’s bizarre claim, Buck dismisses him and storms off.

In the days that follow Orm begins to appear more frequently, slowly pushing his way into Buck’s life. Attempting to hide the truth from his family Buck descends into a downward spiral of madness as his fears and denial begin to terrorise him. Buck realises his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather coming to terms with who he really is.