The true story of troubled British playwright Andrea Dunbar who died aged 29, leaving a legacy of three plays and a daughter, Lorraine. She wrote about the difficult life she endured growing up in England’s Bradford housing projects.

An inventive twist on non-fiction filmmaking, Clio Barnard’s take on the tragic life of playwright Andrea Dunbar foresees a bracing new voice in British cinema. A dazzling hybrid of documentary, staged reading, and biography, this auspicious debut defies convention and categorization at every turn.