Anna Eadie

On her first day of school, Sofia – a Brazilian teenager who has recently arrived in London – is bullied by a group of British students. Homesick and alienated from the world around her, she meets Lauren, a British-Nigerian teenager who shows her Sun Rah, a world entirely of her own making in a nearby park, where they make their home together.

Over the course of one night in a North London corner shop, a troubled shopkeeper, Youssef, endures discrimination and pressure from his uncle, Samir, to stop smoking weed and focus on running their business. Mistaken for the perpetrator of a petty robbery, Youssef is detained and issued a warning - an opportunity his grandstanding uncle revels in. As he withstands Samir’s moral lectures, Youssef discovers that his uncle is using the shop to store drugs for a local gang, shattering his sense of reality. At the same time, his close friend Ciara challenges Youssef’s burning skepticism, which he deflects with anecdotes about rude customers. The night culminates in a tense confrontation with gang members seeking retribution against Samir - the true nature of which remains forever concealed by the CCTV dead zones.