Shola (Bukky Bakray), or , as she's known, lives in a London council flat with her younger brother Emmanuel (D'angelou Osei Kissiedu) and their single mother. Mum is busy and stressed, leaving to spend all her free time with school friends. One day, she comes home to find her life radically altered: she is suddenly on her own with a child to take care of. Gavron could easily have steered into miserabilism, but delivers instead a surprising portrait of resilience. is mercurial, impulsive, and deeply sensitive - not unusual for her age, she sometimes makes desperately poor decisions, for what look to her like good reasons. When her closest friend Sumaya (Kosar Ali) tries to help, doesn't know how to accept it, blinded by Sumaya's two-parent household and relative comfort.

Starring:

Bukky Bakray , Kosar Ali , D'angelou Osei Kissiedu , Shaneigha-Monik Greyson , Ruby Stokes , Tawheda Begum , Afi Okaidja , Anastasia Dymitrow , Sarah Niles , Layo-Christina Akinlude , Sharon D. Clarke , Islah Abdur-Rahman , Shola Adewusi , Mohammad Amiri , Brie-Morgan Appleton

Genre:

Drama