A teenage boxer searching for self-definition gives in to his true colours at the risk of losing everything.
Acting
Joe Cole's simmering vulnerability is devastating.
Direction
Rowland builds dread in every frame.

Director
Nick Rowland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as Pride, this short captures a darker, less celebratory queer British experience rarely shown on screen.
Nick Rowland later directed Calm With Horses—Connor's explosive repression clearly fascinated him long before that feature.