Happy birthday to you.

Well...

this was your daddy's.

Brought back from the war.

I figured it was time to pass it on.

That's the best present I ever got. Thank you.

How and why people from two points

on a map without even a straight line

between them can be connected

is at the heart of our story in Knockemstiff.

You ever think about how we ended up

orphans living in the same house?

I know what my daddy did.

Some people would say it's just dumb luck.

-You take pictures? -I do.

When I see a smile pretty enough to photograph,

that is.

Others would tell you it was God's plan.

"Blessed are they who hunger

and thirst for righteousness."

That ain't no preacher.

He's as bad as they got on the damn radio.

When people look back on it,

they'd had no other choice.

There's a lot of no-good sons of bitches out there.

Excuse me, Preacher.

You got time for a sinner?

You know, I studied something.

It's called the delusion.

A belief that is untruth.

It is our delusions that lead us to sin!

Delusions!

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

What I'm about to do,

I do

because I have to.

Not because I want to.