20 Harelawn Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin was the Doyle family home. In 2007 the house was sold, 8 years after the death of their mother, an alcoholic. In the time between their mother's death and their father leaving, the house became the only icon of security Tanya, her 3 sisters and her brother could depend on. After making the decision to sell the house, and in the days before vacating, the filmmaker brought each family member to the house to tell their own story. In a brave and personal way, this autobiographical documentary explores how themes of alcoholism, abandonment, grief, identity, money and security weave into the tapestry of a family dynamic.—Anonymous

Tanya Doyle lived all her life at 20 Harelawn Grove, Clondalkin, West Dublin. It was the Doyle family home. In 2007 the house was sold, some 8 years after the death of Tanya's mother and her father's departure. Their mother gone and now left alone to raise one another, the house became the only icon of security that Tanya, her three sisters and her brother could depend on. Or that's how she perceived it. As Tanya's sisters, one by one, left the house to start lives of their own, only Tanya and her brother remained. The decision came to sell the house. In the days before the house was sold, Tanya brought each member of her family, her father Ollie, her sisters Sarah, Tracey and Patrice and her brother Peter, back to the house to tell the story of their shared experiences, their impressions of each other and the different perceptions each of them had of the time they spent there together in their family home. This profoundly moving and autobiographical documentary explores the ideas of change, progression and shared experiences in a family dealing with loss and illness. Directed by first-time filmmaker Tanya Doyle, it is an epitaph to a home and a life, as well as a startling attack on the clichés of west Dublin. Tanya Doyle takes us inside. In The House, we look out the window instead of in.—Marmalade Films