It's a sad state of affairs when such a brave and quintessentially British movie like May Miles Thomas' haunting One Life Stand gets kinder treatment at festivals abroad than in cinemas at home.
A black-and-white digital feature about a middle-aged woman in Glasgow who naively pushes her 18-year-old son into the male-escort racket, writer-director Thomas has created a harrowing and poignant film that could be the Scottish equivalent to Requiem for a Dream.
In the lead, Maureen Carr contributes a performance as heartbreaking as Ellen Burstyn's in Darren Aronofsky's equally stylized film.