On the night that low-level gambler Daz Clemance is leaving Birmingham to start a crime-free life with his girlfriend in Spain, he is accused of fixing an illicit bareknuckle fight. Beaten, stabbed, and locked in a cupboard, Daz is left armed only with his phone and his wits. Will he escape from the locked and guarded room before his boss wreaks revenge?
Acting
Nicholas Clarke's sweaty desperation carries every minute
Direction
Jez Alsop wrings maximum tension from one cupboard
Writing
Lean dialogue, no fat, pure escalating dread
Director
Jez Alsop
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during COVID lockdowns, the single-location constraint became artistic choice rather than limitation. The cupboard IS the pandemic.
Bareknuckle boxing remains underground in Traveller and working-class British communities—this isn't exotic crime, it's specific cultural territory rarely filmed.
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