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Starring
Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, Anne-Marie Duff

Director
Dominic Savage

Year
2006

Genre
Drama

Synopsis
In this thought-provoking drama, Emmy nominee Colin Firth stars as a wealthy city worker who, when prompted by guilt, tries to help those less fortunate than himself, leading to tragic consequences.

Social inequality in Britain is addressed through the lives of those in a B&B temporarily housing the homeless and dispossessed: a group of people who are the hidden homeless. Michelle (Anne-Marie Duff - The Virgin Queen) is a pregnant mother with a young child; Yemi (David Oyelowo), a Nigerian refugee with his wife and young daughter and Robert (Emmy-nominee Robert Carlyle), an ex-prisoner embarking on a search for his mother.

This is a compassionate look at the homeless in London, which gives an insight into what transpires in people's lives where they end up having to escape their family, abusive partners and threatening environment. On the other side of the coin you've got the person who has everything in life until that crisis of conscience leads them down a path they would normally not enter. Suddenly life is filled with tories of desperation and he realises he has been existing in a vacuum.

TRIVIA:
The actors improvised their own dialogue from ideas developed by director Dominic Savage, who has frequently worked in this method.

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