A film that holds a mirror up to society. One that says we are all interconnected. We can all play a part. We can all help. The film left me saddened. Sad for the victim. Sad for the perpetrator. Sad for the family. Sad for the partner. I did not feel sadness for the filmmaker. I felt he was not there for Stevie. If the references to him being 'big brother' were removed from the film I would not have realised they had any history together such was their negative body language together. Sometimes it made me squirm it was so awkward when they were in the same scenes together. I felt for Stevie. His circumstances were awful. He seemed destined to fall. At one point I felt a glimmer of hope but it was short-lived. There were some standout scenes. Where Stevie and his partner go to Chicago and visit her friend who was sexually abused as a child talking about the effect on her life of the assault. The scene where Stevie goes back to visit his foster parents reveals a different side of his personality that springs from somewhere deep inside him as though it had been locked away for years. The moment his mother hugs him after he goes into prison is something she should have done many years ago, perhaps when he was a young boy instead of hitting him in the face. What goes around comes around. I felt the filmmaker could have offered or at least been seen to offer more advice to Stevie. To try and have a more open conversation with him. Maybe he tried but he comes across badly in my mind. Overall the film makes me despair at the way we live our lives and the fragility of the human condition. It leaves me feeling there is no hope.