Elapsing across three timelines, the film explores the fluctuating relationship between two Jamaican-Canadian brothers, united by love but drawn apart by circumstances.

Francis (Aaron Pierre), the older sibling, is a pillar of the local community. Everyone – from the little kids riding their bikes in the street to the workers at the corner shop – knows who he is and is charmed by his helpful, easygoing demeanour. Michael (Lamar Johnson), by contrast, tries his hardest to be invisible, putting on his headphones and blocking out the world around him. The pair are sometimes close, sometimes estranged, particularly after Francis drops out of high school to pursue a career in music, leaving Michael alone in their previously shared bunk beds. It is only when the brothers become witnesses in a shooting that the course of their lives changes forever.

supremely confident and affecting drama
Screen International

A lyrical and probing adaptation
IndieWire

This film is distributed by Curzon.

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