The outerworld of banter and irony, a healing or at least comforting force, gradually vanishes, as does Midge, their embodiment, leaving us with increasingly lonely images and sounds.
The mysterious archipelago, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986, and has since become the subject of ornithological study, archaeological fascination and popular intrigue.
The screenplay, by Seth Bass and Jonathan Tolins, based on a novel by David Gerrold, offers heartwarming, tearjerking, stand-up-and-cheer moments that only a golem could resist, but Meyjes never conjures a world, inner or outer, so the result is just a string of effective scenes, an illustrated script rather than an experience.