An austere, pained drama about postwar trauma and survivor guilt, “The Return” reduces ancient myth to its psychological studs.

It all clearly stunned and pained Mwape who could not believe the boy he described as sparky and generous could have gone down this path, saying his whole demeanour changes when he's on drugs.

But it pained him to see how the fire had torched the trees he’d so lovingly tended for nearly 25 years.

It pained him, he wrote in a newspaper essay, that his oldest daughter had selected the University of Michigan for college because she thought no Florida school was good enough.

Agatha pleads with her not to take him, and Death seems genuinely pained about it, so she offers Agatha one option –– time.