When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
Acting
Charlotte Wakefield's May—feral, magnetic, heartbreaking.
Production
That derelict farmhouse feels genuinely haunted by time itself.
Writing
Asthma as plot device and metaphor? Weirdly effective.
Director
Harley Cokeliss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a weird British subgenre: '00s kids' films where council estate children discover magic in post-industrial ruins (see also: The Selfish Giant, Son of Rambow).
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