When cinematographers try to look at the life meanness through the eyes of a child, it is always in double measure dramatically and touching. A childish faith in a possibility to exterminate the evil with improvised means is so catching!
The life of little Paul begins with losses and disappointments. After his father's death weight of cares for Paul's sick mother and a little brother fell on the ten-years boy's shoulders.
Nevertheless Paul is just a kid, which feels everything sharply, needs a caress, likes to play and
go on the rides, and with a childish spontaneity understands light and dark sides of the world.
And the world brings down on him more and more trials. Paul gets to know, what his mother is sick with. Mel has been a drug addict for a long time and it is not likely that she has a chance to get out of a quagmire she is in.
Young Paul begins an unequal struggle for his mother. A person, who seems to the boy an evil incarnation, is for his mother the man, she can not live without.
Lenny is Mel's friend, who generously took trouble about her and her boys. And he is an enterprising souteneur and a drug dealer, who doesn't scruple to use any forms of payments for his services, especially if a client is a young attractive woman.
An astonishing, keen and impressive movie worthy of special attention of the general audience.
Cast:
Harry Eden ...Paul
Vinnie Hunter ...Lee
Molly Parker ...Mel
David Wenham ...Lenny
Nitin Ganatra ...Abu
Levi Hayes ...Jack
Keira Knightley ...Louise
Rupert Procter ...Harry
Bronson Webb ...Tom
Marsha Thomason ...Vicki
and the others...
2002