An apprentice work that took Davies nearly a decade to complete, the critically acclaimed Trilogy foreshadows many of the director’s ongoing concerns and contains flashes of his singular form of visual storytelling, subtle use of music, and wry wit. The film constructs a composite portrait of Robert Tucker, who like Davies was the product of an impoverished Liverpool Catholic family. Bullied at home and victimized at school, Tucker’s only respite comes from the death of his abusive father. Moving from childhood through middle age, Madonna and Child focuses on his homosexuality and the crippling effects of his fear of condemnation by the church. The concluding Death and Transfiguration shifts inevitably to Tucker’s waning days in a geriatric ward, where he imagines the night nurse’s flashlight as heaven-sent illumination.