Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.

Paddy Considine
as Morell

Andrew Shim
as Romeo Brass

Frank Harper
as Joe Brass

Vicky McClure
as Ladine Brass

Johann Myers
as Clifford

Shane Meadows
as Male Nurse (credited as Shaun Fields)

Bob Hoskins
as Steven Laws

Ben Marshall
as Gavin 'Knocks' Woolley

Darren O. Campbell
as Darren

Martin Arrowsmith
as Dennis Wardrobe
John Chard
Alienation and the loner! Shane Meadows is fast becoming one of the finest directors to come out of England, his films have such an earthy quality to them it's very hard to imagine that any Englishman can not find one film from his output that they can't identify with. Be it thematically or chara...