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A fostered Nigerian boy growing up in Essex loses all sense of identity and joins a racist skinhead gang. Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz, Lost) directs this powerful drama based on his own, extraordinary upbringing.
Drama 2018 107 mins
Director: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Overview
Six-week-old Enitan is left in the care of a white working-class family in Tilbury, Essex, but his surrogate mother (Beckinsale) makes for a complex foster parent. Unsure of his place in the world, teenage Enitan (Idris) falls in with a skinhead gang. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz, Lost) directs from his own extraordinary life story this journey of a young fostered Nigerian boy in 1980s England.
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