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Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Simon BLAKE
Writer(s) : Simon BLAKE
Cast : Elodie YUNG, Aidan GILLEN, Johathan SLINGER, Amanda MEALING

Producer(s) : Colette DELANEY-SMITH (Blunt Stuff Ltd), Zorana PIGGOTT (011)

Tom Carver, handsome and charismatic, is a man who has reached a crossroads. He is an aspiring and talented photographer whose career has largely been compromised and unfulfilled. His marriage to the woman he still loves has fallen apart after the death of his teenage son in an accident, leaving him broken and alone. A good man whose equilibrium has been blown out of shape by what life has thrown at him.

A chance and seemingly unimportant confrontation with a fifteen-year-old boy brings his life and responsibilities to the fore. A battle of wills between Tom and the gang of kids develops, trivial and childish altercations begin to take a considerably sinister direction. At first the conflict is verbal, but soon the gang begin to stalk and taunt him. Tom retreats ever inwards consoled by his long term friend Ed (a crime reporter for the local paper) a seemingly lovable rogue with a hedonistic outlook and an appetite for self –destruction.

Tom develops a somewhat awkward friendship with a young ten-year-old boy who has recently lost his brother in a knifing incident. He takes him under his wing and teaches him photography. Although the relationship is completely innocent it draws Tom further into the conflicts and politics of the local gangs.

Matters reach a chilling denouement when Tom’s new young trophy girlfriend is attacked. Ed and Tom immediately assume the gang to be guilty and in light of the police’s inability to resolve the case, they decide to take the law into their own hands. Revenge is sought and the final climax of the film brings Tom’s achievements as a man and a father into sharp and dreadful focus, the film ends with Tom enveloped in an unrelenting wave of grief, broken and beaten, yet enlightened and clear.