Drama starring Anna Madeley, Christine Bottomley and Emun Elliott. While cycling through the Kent countryside, a young woman called Tammy comes across a strawberry farm and takes up a job as a picker. She begins a relationship with fellow worker Kev and everything seems idyllic until the arrival of Emily, who declares that Tammy is in fact her sister Gillian, who has run away from home.
Strawberry-picking season on a Kent farm is the unusual setting for a rites-of-passage psychological drama from a BBC-supported scheme designed to foster new film-making talent. Director/co-writer Frances Lea effectively draws us into the action when newcomer Gillian (Anna Madeley) arrives alone and tentatively befriends her fellow pickers, capturing the attention of the confident Kev (Emun Elliott). Everything changes, however, with the entrance of Emily (Christine Bottomley), Gillian's flamboyant yet needy sibling, who seems determined to crush her sister's hopes of independence. Convincing performances from the female leads create the sense of an intimate, yet hopelessly conflicted family bond with a history that's led up to this flashpoint, and the understanding of each sister's story certainly proves involving. It's a pity the ending feels rather more forced than the simmering tensions that precede it, but the atmospheric location-filming is another positive in a production whose modest resources never inhibit its creative enterprise.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Gillian | Anna Madeley |
| Emily | Christine Bottomley |
| Kev | Emun Elliott |
| Fabio | Jonathan Bonnici |
| Sammy | Florence Bell |
| Sabrina | Vanessa Babirye |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Frances Lea |
