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Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere

Plot

Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and their father Bug, who raise them alone in a squat in north Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for them. Barry Keoghan dropped out of Gladiator II (2024) to star in this film instead.

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Twelve-year-old "Bailey" (Nykiya Adams). She lives in a squat with her father "Bug" (Barry Keoghan), brother "Hunter" (Jason Buda) and soon-to-be stepmother "Kayleigh" (Frankie Box). An upcoming wedding and a pretty, flashy pink catsuit are what put her at odds with her well-meaning father, and she finds herself abandoned to frolic in the Kent fields.

She doesn’t look for a challenge

There she meets the rather mysterious "Bird"; (Franz Rogowski), who is searching for his parents in the Gravesend tower block near his home. He decides to try to help this rather strange fellow and their lives quickly become intertwined when we discover that his mother (Jasmine Jobson) is struggling with an abusive relationship with her boyfriend "Skate" (James Nelson-Joyce), while also trying to raise three young children. Young “Bailey” has set out to find her new boyfriend’s parents, helping her mum and siblings, and putting pressure on her father to find happiness.

freedom, family and often fun too

Keoghan is energetic as he zips around the housing estates on his e-scooter, and his character does a good job of keeping the main characters together – and there’s a charmingly understated chemistry between Adams and Rogowski, which mixes their own stories with mystical soup and plenty of allegorical imagery to illustrate elusive themes. There are some fairly violent undertones too, and we have no doubt that his and his family’s lives have been and remain quite turbulent – but these points are made not with a hammer, but rather through gentle observation and the development of engaging personalities that develop subtly but powerfully over the course of a few hours. It’s a slow burn, but it works.

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