Wow. Very powerful film based on a true story about how the social services and the courts can, on occasion, get it all so wrong. Chrissy Rock is brilliantly believable as a mother of four kids who have been taken into care; a result of an abusive relationship with the ever so slightly typecast Ray Winstone. She meets gentle Gorge, a Paraguayan migrant, and they embark on a new abusiveless life together. However, Maggie's past soon comes back to haunt them. Social realism is by far my favourite film genre, and this is one of the best. Ken Loach, you're a (inter)national treasure. 8 out of ten.
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