Pauline Tomlin

UK short film about how traditional hairstyles among Black British people weaves its way through the lives of all generations and genders.

A young receptionist forms a coincidental bond with a patient over the phone, who helps her reconnect with the world and her place in it.

Liberty decides to spend the first day of summer questioning her life and those within it. Instead of reflecting on their differences, she thinks about their similarities and the impact they’ve had on her. She realises that they have one thing in common - they’re all women. She begins to create an ode to not only the dominant female presence in her life, but to all women and the beauty in their stories, through her poem ‘The Skin I Move In’.

Nicole, a single mum facing financial hardship whose eldest son Archie is autistic and will only eat Baked Beans, has reached a point where she has to use the local food bank to feed her family.