United Kingdom 2023Language:EnglishSubtitles:GermanDirector:Janis PughWriter:Janis PughCinematographer:Sarah CunninghamEditor:Rebecca LloydSound:Kieron Wolfson & Lee HerrickWith:Louise Brealey, Annabel Scholey, Sorcha Cusack, Celyn JonesProducer:Anne Beresford, Adam Partridge, Andrew Gillman, Peggy CaffertyProduction Company:Artemisia FilmsDistributor:Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH101 min, Colour

In a small town in North Wales, Helen looks after her dying mother-in-law and is pushed around by her useless ex-husband, who has taken up with a younger woman and fathered a baby (something which Helen was denied due to complications). She earns her money with monotonous work in a chicken-processing factory, but can at least have a laugh with her female colleagues. When a female former school friend turns up, on whom Helen had a crush back then, old feelings are rekindled... A lively and colourful story with overdrawn characters, slightly exaggerated situations and crude working-class humour unfolds between the factory and the drabness of the terraced brick houses.

Director's Biography:Born in North Wales in the 70s, Janis Pugh began producing her first short films in 2003 and won a scholarship to the London Film School. In following years, she devoted herself to social complexity and different kinds of love.

Director's Filmography:
2014 THE BEFUDDLED BOX OF BETTY BUTTIFINT (Feature)
2012 A BEAUTIFUL DEATH (SHORT)
2011 CONVERSATIONS WITH MY AUNT (FEATURE)
2007 BLUE COLLARS AND BUTTERCUPS (SHORT)