Suzy is a British soldier who returns home from a hearts-and-minds mission in Iraq, deeply affected by her experience, and struggles to settle back into civilian life. Her attempts to get reacquainted with her young daughter.
Welsh's film is a fiercely direct piece of social realism, a work that makes a neat companion to Ken Loach's Route Irish. In fact, it's Loach who Welsh most closely resembles as a filmmaker, steering his actors into dark and brutal corners. Cracks surface in Suzy and Mark's marriage as she avoids physical intimacy, while flashbacks to a harrowing image from the war underline the fact that her daughter is becoming more and more distant. Events gradually spiral out of control, leading to racially-motivated violence, rape and abduction. Bleak times. Without giving too much away, a scene late on depicting a character playing with a loaded gun is particularly agonising to watch.
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