Verkkonow the two brothers are must deal with the consequences. What actually happens is the loving and gentle husband is deployed and we follow the. Verkkograce tells him exactly what happened. Sam doesn’t believe her and storms out of the house, walking through a graveyard until daybreak. He comes back in a better. Verkkothe bleak conclusion sam reaches at the end (“only the dead have seen the end of war”) can’t be understated, and his confession to grace was presented as a first. Verkkobut the real center of jim sheridan's movie isn't the brothers, but their whole teetering clan, which will collapse and rebuild itself in complicated new ways.