Everyone has a Tully Dawson (Tony Curran) – the good friend who defines your life. In the summer season of 1986, in a small Scottish city, Jimmy (Martin Compston) and Tully ignite a superb friendship primarily based on music, movies and the insurgent spirit. With faculty over and the locked world of their fathers earlier than them, they rush in direction of the climax of their youth – a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of all the things that conjures up them in working-class Britain. There, towards the best soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life in a different way. Thirty years on, half a life away, the cellphone rings. Tully has the worst form of information, and a request that may take a look at their friendship, love, and loyalty to the restrict…
Mayflies is a memorial to youth’s euphoria and to on a regular basis tragedy. A young goodbye to an previous union, it discovers the enjoyment and the prices of affection.