Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. But as David watches the police close in on his missing friend, their innocent secret takes on a life of its own. When the real reason Emily wants to escape comes to light, David's world is shattered. Swept up in a situation out of his control, and with his feelings for his best friend growing stranger by the day, David is forced to take action.
Acting
Turgoose's deer-in-headlights panic is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Harper makes the English coast feel claustrophobic and endless.
Cinematography
Bleached-out beach days that curdle into something sinister.
Director
Tom Harper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thomas Turgoose was 15 during filming, still riding the wave of his breakout in Shane Meadows' This Is England. Tom Harper specifically cast him for his ability to seem 'dangerously naive.'
The film deliberately never shows Emily's perspective, forcing us into David's unreliable subjectivity — we're implicated in his refusal to see what's really happening until it's too late.
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