20 minutes to shatter your heart and rebuild it with rage.
When suspicious bruising is found on Lisa's son, Bobby, she is forced to confront her own childhood trauma to prevent him from being taken by a well-meaning social worker.
Acting
Becky Lindsay's trembling restraint before explosion.
Direction
Burns brothers squeeze decades of pain into 20 minutes.
Director
Lou Burns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in North East England, the film uses regional class dynamics rarely seen in British cinema—social services here function differently when you're poor.
The 20-minute runtime mirrors Lisa's trapped urgency; Burns originally developed this as proof-of-concept for a feature that never got made.
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