Starring breakout performances from Saura Lightfoot-Leon and Lily-Beau Leach, alongside Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires, the film follows a young girl (Leach) living in London in 1984 as she navigates her mother’s obsessive hoarding. Flashing forward to the girl’s teenage years, she (Lightfoot-Leon) must confront the madness and trauma of her late mother when a stranger (Quinn) arrives on her doorstep. Uncanny, darkly funny and bursting with personality, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called it “a haunting study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality”.
Director Luna Carmoon
Screenplay Luna Carmoon
Producers Loran Dunn, Helen Simmons, Andy Starke
Cast Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires
Sales agent Alpha Violet
UK distributor Vertigo
Broadcaster BBC
Credits summary A Delaval Film, Erebus Pictures, Anti-Worlds production, supported by BFI and BBC Film
Festival highlights Venice International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival