An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
Acting
Hoskins' final lead role—fragile, tender, devastating.
Direction
Dunn refuses easy answers, lets discomfort breathe.
Director
Jan Dunn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Margate, Kent, using local non-actors for crowd scenes to capture authentic small-town hostility.
Dunn deliberately never shows Florrie's perspective, forcing the audience to share the town's paranoid assumptions.