LYNN + LUCY

Lynn and Lucy are childhood friends, now married and living opposite each other in a workingclass district.

Of the two Lynn is the 'quiet one', who had a child Lola when she was only sixteen (some ten years ago), whilst Lucy is the party girl with hair dyed blue who now a young baby boy Harrison.

Neither of them is particularly happy with their lot when the film starts.

Lynn's husband Paul seems dissatisfied with their marriage, and Lynn has just started working at a local hairdresser for someone she was at school with who delights in lording it over her.  It's all rather humiliating for Lynn, especially when she learns that her nickname at school behind her back was 'Pig'.

Lucy is struggling with being a young mother, and her boyfriend Clark is not very supportive.

Then the film takes a melodramatic turn with baby Harrison dying from some injuries.  The question is whether Lucy or Clark is responsible, and the film explores how this question impacts on the friendship between Lynn and Lucy, on Lynn's relationship with Paul, and on the wider community.  

All of this is absorbing stuff, very well acted by Roxanne Scrimshaw as Lynn and Nichola Burley as Lucy.

My only quibble is that there is a plot turn which hinges on Lola behaving in an odd and to my mind inexplicable way.

Apart from this it's a fine effort from director Fyzal Boulifa.