It charts the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence. Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change. Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is on the brink of a breakdown. His biggest fear is change. Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee, awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom - a concept taken for granted by all those around her. Told in three revelatory narratives, each from a particular character’s point of view, reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 6.9/10 | |
Released: | October 20, 2006 | |
Runtime: | 98 min | |
Genres: | Drama Family | |
Companies: | Wolfe Video BBC Molinare Studios | |
Cast: | Paul McGann Pauline McLynn Rula Lenska Chloe Sirene | |
Crew: | Jan Dunn | |
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