A somehow deeply unsettling TV movie, an early screenplay from Stephen Poliakoff. An eleven year old girl goes missing. Two years later her father, James Fox, who's searching for her in London finds her... But. She's enigmatic, uncommunicative, edgy, can barely talk to him, keeps putting him off. What's going on? Then he tracks her down but she keeps trying to escape, like a wild animal.
And we don't really get a satisfactory explanation for all this, but I guess what Poliakoff is tapping in to is that some people just cannot bear to be in the world they're in.
Amazing that the father isn't arrested after he's seen manhandling and gagging this obviously underage girl.
While this is going on he chums up with a woman who has lost her son, Jane Asher. They encounter all sorts of types in a grubby looking London, photographed by Howard Atherton.
James Fox is fantastic as the father, and Kate Hardie holds her own as the young girl. An early Channel 4 film, music by George Fenton. Waldo Roeg is a second assistant director.
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