Bildungsroman in the ends. Excellent balance of tone between the hard-edged realities of road life and the emotionality of the inner lives of the people, as deep as anyone else. It’s real-street-politik meets coming-of-age meets Kafka; the unflinching depiction of urban gang life mixing with the journey from boy 2 man, played against the absurdist background of North West London estate blocks  named for lauded Victorian writers while its inhabitants are forgotten by the world at large.

Loved it, not for the faint hearted, but this is how people be living outchea