Shooting with a camcorder and restoring one's faith in British indie cinema, writer-director May Miles Thomas makes an impressive debut with this piece of Scottish realism that crosses Ken Loach with Bill Forsyth, to amuse and dismay in equal measures.
As the single mum attempting to fund son John Kielty's modelling aspirations, Maureen Carr is simply superb, whether trying to coax a smile out of her ingrate offspring, deflect her amorous boss, or cope with the drunken disillusionment of the husband who abandoned her.