Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama Family
Release date : Oct 19, 2006
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Official sites : Official site
Language : English
Filming locations : Margate, Kent, England, UK
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Medb Films Distant Eye Films
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama Family
Release date : Oct 19, 2006
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Official sites : Official site
Language : English
Filming locations : Margate, Kent, England, UK
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Medb Films Distant Eye Films
