3 Star

Angst and Wet Tarmac.

Writer/director Scott Graham (Iona) brings us the modern version of the old ‘kitchen sink dramas’ and converts it into a ‘dash cam drama’. He brings us the brutal truth of dead-end family life, where dreams have been curtailed in a climate of economic decline.

“Baby this town rips the bones from your back.

It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap.

We gotta get out while we’re young.”

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.

Finnie (Mark Stanley, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, Dark River) lives in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire with his wife
Katie (Amy Manson, Not Another Happy Ending, Doom: Annihilation), son ‘Kid’ (Anders Hayward, Gap Year (TV Mini-Series)) and his youngest Stevie (Scott Murray) who is into Karate.

“Do you hit harder in white?”

Fin is not a happy person, he hates his job in the fish factory and it makes it even worse that Kid has just lost the job he got him there. Which makes the air tense as they finish work and pick up Stevie and Katie who loves her job at the hairdressers and is far more upbeat than the males of her family.

“I stink.” “I Stink too.” “Naa like me!”

Fin and Katie when they were younger had plans to be somewhere other than Aberdeenshire but having Kid put a stop to that dream. So Fin spent his youth street racing round the wet tarmac roads of Fraserburgh, but now it is Kid that has the souped-up hot-hatch and hangs out at the leisure centre waiting for the next challenge.

With tensions running high Fin sees a way to release some stress and when Kid retires to his room to listen to his loud music Fin sneaks out and takes Kids car and heads to his old haunts. Where he meets Kelly (Marli Siu, Anna and the Apocalypse, Grantchester (TV Series)), Kid’s now ex-girlfriend, who is newly pregnant.