Malachi Smyth, who also has previous screenwriting experience (including Tanel Toom’s second full-length feature film, currently in production), has directed his debut film as a quirky British heist musical based on his own text. This unusual musical gains its charm from the lyrical poetry of nostalgic progressive/folk rock that is rather not common in musicals. It flows fluently from dialogue to the inner world of the characters and carries the action forward.

Two ‘philosophising’ small-time crooks are on a job at roadside café where a 20,000 pound deal should take place. A twist of events postpones the deal and the story takes on a romantic and then an increasingly tense turn.

Music for the film has been written by Johnny Flynn who is known in England as a musician and actor and whom we could last see in the classical romance "Emma" and the musically highly demanding "Stardust", a biographical film of David Bowie. Flynn and the cast perform the music of the film and he and his band mate Joe have compiled the soundtrack. In addition to Flynn, young Will Poulter ("The Stories of Narnia: the Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "We’re the Millers", "Midsommar", etc.) plays the most remarkable role of his career. His character is romantically interested in a character played by singer and actress Naomi Ackie ("Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker"). We will also see Naomi in Whitney Houston’s biography "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" next year.

Dagmar Raudam