Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
Dawn is a mobile hairdresser in a small, working class town in the North East of England. As she talks and tends to her customers, Dawn is plunged into a chatty world of lifestyle-shaming and gentrified expectations, sudden responsibilities and fast-paced change. Through their conversations, Dawn finds each of her customers at their own cross-roads, their own dreams and expectations rooted, for the moment, in the promise of a brand new hairdo.
Believing he's found the frequency that will free human consciousness, a drug-addled techno producer builds a machine that kills people with sound.
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
Harriet Ghost is an actress, known for I, Daniel Blake (2016), Temporal (2015) and Drunken Butterflies (2014).