A film about teenage passion and hatred that is equally as strong. Leigh-Anne is an 18 year old with a 10 month old daughter who can barely get through the day without the support and supervision of social welfare. She is terrified of losing her child to a welfare organization in the event she loses the means to take care of her child on her own. Such fear has her acting hostile not only to her child’s grandmother, but to the social service worker and her Turkish neighbors who believe she is Pakistani. Her intense desire to provide a stable life leads Leigh-Anne to create a surrogate family with three friends, a family isolated from the outside world. In order to support her child, she will do whatever it takes, which eventually leads to devastating consequences. This layered narrative develops by contrasting the immature and fragile love and sex of teenagers against prejudice, isolation and survival. What propels the teenagers in the film are paranoia caused by misunderstandings and distrust and the hatred and anguish that explode from frustration. These lives are desperate and full of sorrow.
 (Sue Kim)