stairs

When the boy’s not looking, Jamie’s shoulders sag as he trudges up the stairs to Isla’s sickbed, showing us a hint of adult complexities he alone understands.

Mr Latter, who lived with his partner Ms Grant, in the flat across the communal landing, was found semi-conscious at the bottom of the stairs as police arrived.

He had some of the ingredients already on hand, but as he was going down the stairs to where the food processor was to make the mayonnaise, Baldwin recalled changing his mind.

A fall down the stairs at his home in County Tyrone left him paralysed from the chest down with limited use of his limbs.

Then the plot departs from reality and descends into macabre humor, with Cole accidentally pushing the old lady down the stairs, killing her.