What a very sad little tale of an ordinary and all too common life this was. Tony left home at just 16 because of arguments with his mum, as do thousands of kids every year. At the beginning of Max Fisher’s touching and starkly real film, Tony, now 19, hadn’t seen his mum since then and desperately wanted to.

One of the very first things that came across loud and clear about Tony was that he was incredibly childlike for the most part, and very unworldly. He’d been living first in a succession of hostels for the homeless and in one of those, he’d been so badly bullied, he’d had to be moved for his own safety. How lonely and scared this fey, naïve boy must have felt then. Read more & comment »