A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.
Acting
Adrian Lester's restrained pain anchors every scene.
Direction
Cellan Jones finds poetry in concrete council estates.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds stolen from real care home hallways.
Director
Simon Cellan Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Written by Lennie James, who also plays Bonaface — he based early drafts on his own hostel experiences before becoming an actor.
Part of a wave of late-90s/early-2000s BBC films addressing care system failures, rarely syndicated outside UK — practically lost media now.
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