A single mother vs. a gang leader at war with himself — who wins when everyone's already broken?
Lucy and her daughter Katy are under siege from a street gang. The gang leader Rabbit wants to make them feel as low as he has been made to feel; as he fights a war against himself and the world around him.
Acting
Jack Brett Anderson's Rabbit — terrifying because he's so tragically human.
Direction
Simina's cramped framing makes every room feel like a trap.
Director
Lavinia Simina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references how marginalized communities are expected to absorb harm as normal — not a bug, but feature of the system.
Shot in Birmingham with largely non-professional local actors, capturing specific post-industrial British despair rarely exported to American screens.
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