The Eclipse is a 2009 Irish supernatural drama film written by Billy Roche and Conor McPherson, and directed by Conor McPherson[1] and starring Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Éanna Hardwicke and Aidan Quinn.

[2] Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a depressed widower who works as a teacher in the small seaside town of Cobh, in County Cork, Ireland, where he lives with his two children.

While he continues to adjust to life without his beloved wife, who died two years earlier, he begins to experience strange, possibly supernatural occurrences connected to his elderly father-in-law, who is close to death in a local nursing home.

When Michael volunteers at the town's annual literary festival, he is assigned to look after Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle).

Lena is known for her ghost stories, and Michael, impressed with the realistic nature of her writing, shares his recent experiences with her.