15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.
Acting
Non-professional cast who lived these streets — absolutely shattering.
Direction
Sarah Gavron's invisible hand lets chaos breathe like documentary.
Writing
Dialogue so real you'll swear you went to school with these girls.
Director
Sarah Gavron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire cast was found through open workshops in London schools — Bukky Bakray had never acted before and was discovered in her lunch break.
Shot in real locations across Hackney and East London, the film captures a specific pre-gentrification working-class Black British girlhood rarely seen on screen.
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