Desperate Optimists
Thursday 29 May / 6.30pm
AMC Broadway Plaza / Screening by invitation
0121 244 8080
An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to ‘play’ Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy’s last known movements before she disappeared into some woods. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a
bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Gradually she begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl’s life. But is Helen trying to find out what happened in the woods that day, or is she searching for her own identity?
Helen was made with particaption from Fierce and co-commissioned with Liverpool Capital of Culture, Dublin Docklands Development Authority and Newcastle Gateshead Culture 10.
