Directed by SACHA POLAK
Starring VICKY KNIGHT, ESME CREED-MILES, CHARLOTTE KNIGHT
Released 29 MARCH
wo minutes into Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak’s fourth feature, , and the film that: the fondly recreated working class milieu of a Daggenham housing estate; the overlapping dialogue from a multi-directional front-room confab; the sudden bursts of violent invective and the sense that the familial harmony we’re witnessing in this moment will be short-lived. The film stars Vicky Knight, extraordinary as the brooding, disconsolate day nurse, caring for her mentally-ill mother and on a mission to track down her estranged father in order to discover why, as a child, she was left in a burning pub and now bares the scars of that fateful night.
