A schoolgirl's double life explodes in 17 minutes of pure dread.
A truanting sixteen-year-old girl is turning tricks to make money for a trip abroad and her mum's much-needed private medical treatment. On this day her secret blows up in a most shocking fashion
Acting
Alexa Davies carries crushing weight in minutes.
Direction
Penrake's cramped framing suffocates beautifully.
Director
Nic Penrake
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-recession British shorts exposing austerity's human cost through council estate stories.
Alexa Davies was 19 playing 16, and filmed her most harrowing scenes in a single day on a real South London estate.
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