Carol Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambition and desires. After endless parties, too many dead-end jobs and family arguments, Bailey becomes Self-Destructive. Resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love, Bailey enters a world where his friends are unable to follow. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise, things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey’s life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug-fueled parties, Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.
Acting
Ricci Harnett's barely-contained desperation carries every scene.
Production
Zero-budget London grime aesthetic that actually works.
Director
Nicholas Winter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Nicholas Winter shot this in 12 days on borrowed equipment and maxed-out credit cards. The panic is basically in the celluloid.
Ricci Harnett based Bailey's physicality on guys he knew from Essex club scenes—men who believed aggression was charisma.
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