Episode 4 – ‘Pala’
Pala is an asylum seeker and desperately alone in Ireland. She spends her day trying to scrape together enough money to send home to her young son Joseph in Nigeria. Today is Joseph’s birthday, but when Pala tries to phone her son she is cut off. That night she goes to her job as a cleaner where she meets a kind man working overtime. However, she finds herself in a dilemma.
Prosperity explores a day in the life of four characters on the fringes of society in inner city Dublin. Made by Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran, the team behind the acclaimed Adam & Paul and forthcoming feature film Garage, Prosperity is an utterly compelling portrayal of those on the margins, left behind by the economic success of the country.
Have we really never had it so good?