/>Coming Down The Mountain is the first TV drama written by award-winning novelist Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time), and bears his distinctive and powerful simplicity of style. This original, funny and poignant 90-minute film looks at the unusual relationship between two teenage brothers and will air in early September on BBC One.

Teenager David falls in love for the first time and life couldn’t be better. The only fly in the ointment is his 17-year-old brother, Ben, who has Down’s syndrome.

The family’s world revolves around Ben’s needs while David’s are unwittingly neglected by their parents. When they decide to move the family from London to “the back of beyond” for the sake of Ben’s education, David loses love, friends and his school. His antipathy to Ben grows and grows to the point where he decides to push him off a mountain and get rid of him once and for all…