The
agony and ecstasy of being 15 years old. An intimate portrait of the
dilemmas faced by three South London teenagers as they teeter on the
edge of adulthood.
Follow Ying as she embarks on a desperate journey to find her mother.
Born in Bradford to an English mother and a Chinese father, Ying was
only a baby when her mother left home, severing all contact with the
family. When her father remarried four years later he left Ying alone
with her elderly non-English speaking grandmother.
Kimberly has no time for pleasing her parents. She hates school, hates
living at home and agreeing to their rules. The only thing that
Kimberley does have time for is romance. She has started going out with
a pirate DJ, four years her senior, and she thinks he could be the one.
But things soon go horribly wrong.
Simon is a wannabe rapper and self-confessed ladies man –
“it’s an addiction, I just like girls”. He loves
nothing more than hanging out with his school friends to talk about and
take part in playground games of love and sex. But the game is about to
become a harsh reality for Simon. In four months time his 15-year-old
girlfriend, Christine, will give birth to their child.
“Thoughtful and moving”
Time Out
“A moving, wholly unsentimental programme”