From urban Canada to rural Ireland: Taylor Schilling wows in new film 'Stay'

The film, Stay, is about people who are “between the chairs,” says writer/director, Wiebke von Carolsfeld. Characters who are in search of a place called home or a place to stay.

Aidan Quinn’s character, Dermot, is a disgraced archaeology professor who has fled to Connemara. He’s aghast when he learns that his younger, Canadian lover, Abbey, is pregnant, but he proposes marriage, which she rejects.

Taylor Schilling, who stars as bisexual Piper Chapman in the TV series, Orange is the New Black, plays Abbey. She, too, is rootless. “I cannot form a lasting relationship with anything other than my backpack,” she says, despairingly, having returned to her native Montreal.