This is a devastating film based on true events. Maggie is a young woman from Liverpool now living in London. She's on the bottom wrung of society, a welfare mother of four kids (all with different fathers) and hanging on despite a series of violent partners and jaw-dropping poverty. When a fire breaks out in her building and it's discovered she had gone out to a karaoke bar and locked the door (to keep the building brats out of her flat), Social Services marches in and so starts a long and endless battle with the ever-vigilant parade of social workers.
All four kids are taken away from her. She eventually meets a guy and she tries to start over. He's a political refugee in England from Paraguay and (of course) his visa has run out. He's illegally working but he and Maggie have a fairly even life together. She has a baby but in marches the do-gooders. They have another baby and in they march again. It's a life of torture with the social welfare system on their backs and there's no escape. The "safety net" is actually a strait-jacket.
Crissy Rock stars as Maggie and she's spectacular. She's probably best known as the manageress on the comedy TV series BENIDORM. She got a lot of minor awards attention for this film and she certainly deserved it.
All four kids are taken away from her. She eventually meets a guy and she tries to start over. He's a political refugee in England from Paraguay and (of course) his visa has run out. He's illegally working but he and Maggie have a fairly even life together. She has a baby but in marches the do-gooders. They have another baby and in they march again. It's a life of torture with the social welfare system on their backs and there's no escape. The "safety net" is actually a strait-jacket.
Crissy Rock stars as Maggie and she's spectacular. She's probably best known as the manageress on the comedy TV series BENIDORM. She got a lot of minor awards attention for this film and she certainly deserved it.