Thu, Jan 14, 1999
In 1980's Burnham, Tar lives with his alcoholic mother and abusive father, while Gemma Brogan is a rebellious girl from a respectable family. Both are 14 year old teenagers in a relationship, which their parents disapprove of. When Tar is assaulted one night by his father he runs away from home and ends up on the streets of Bristol. When Gemma's father bans her from having any contact with him, she decides to go and join him there and from then on their lives spiral out of control.
Thu, Jan 21, 1999
With her new goth makeover, Gemma and Tar embrace their new freedom away from their parents. Now living in a squat with vegetarian couple Jerry and Yanny, Gemma quickly riles Yanny for secretly eating a burger and fearing her a bad influence on Tar she tells Gemma to go back home. But at a party she meets Lily, who with her boyfriend Rob offer her a place to stay. Lonely without Gemma, Tar later joins them, little realizing they are heroin addicts, and before long the teenagers sink into a life of drug abuse. When supplies run out, the foursome are faced with either stealing for money or resorting to prostitution.
Thu, Jan 28, 1999
With Lily now pregnant, the flatmates decide to go and live at Rob's mother's holiday let in a bid to make a fresh start and get clean. But kicking the habit proves hard and when Rob is discovered to still have a stash of heroin on him, the foursome slip back into old ways of drug dependency. A police raid changes circumstances for the flatmates, and changes the outlook for one member in trying to get clean. But it takes a shocking scene at a party to finally change everything for someone and make the break from heroin. But which one will it be?