Two teenagers meet on a bombed-out sofa in the middle of nowhere. One is a young drug runner, wet behind the ears; the other is an addict’s daughter who brandishes a knife and acts tough but is lonely, desperate and so hungry she lives on cat food.
Drugs connect Ben (William Robinson) and Daize (Rachelle Diedericks) on opposite sides of the county lines: Daize’s mother is disastrously in the grip of the drugs that Ben’s boss is peddling. There is quick, sharp dialogue between them, full of barbs and cusses at the start, with a trembling undercurrent. But out of this antipathy emerges a delicate, wretched love story that builds its tenderness and tragedy to create an almost epic quality.
