Nowhere To Go

Young, and intentionally naïve, a child, known as ‘Legs’, panics as her family falls apart. Each of them experiences belonging and loss as they live in a whirlpool of emotions that scar and damage them while exposing their frailties. Three grown-up brothers, from her mother’s previous unions, sit uncomfortable on the edge of the new home life in the small West Country town. Culture shocks make new love cause madness for Anthony and his isolation and medication affects everyone with a new fear.
Tired of continual conflict with her husband, and wearied by unending worry about her children, the mother, who held the family together, decides to die and the remaining family members realise that they have nothing in common; they are plunged into chaos. The large immigrant family quickly abandon each other as each one tries to find their own place to be. But for all of them there is nowhere to go. As time drags Legs along she is taken to different levels of awareness as various deceptions are accidentally revealed. She begins to lose her fragile hold on reality.
In an effort to recreate her mother’s dreams Legs attempts to fix the broken family by pretending to be blind to the hurt and pain perpetuated there. But without her mother she has no one to get her strength from. A sense of suffocation and fear is often replaced by floods of doubt about what is right or wrong as she endeavours to understand the truth about her tempestuous fractured family. Voices from the past and the present weave through time to capture the complexity of human relationships and dreams in this misunderstood family.
The reality of teenage life without a mother but with a father whose main priority is ensuring that his neighbours and church brethren see him to be a righteous god-fearing man becomes a harsh bleak course in survival.
Amid the family decay, Legs is forced to explore the meaning of love and death, and the relationship of one to the other. As she follows her mother’s quest for fulfilment she finds her own fulfilment and self-discovery. The complex journey follows events that both bind and tear the family apart.
As the family disintegrates Legs realises that only by acceptance of her own dreams can she change her life and truly enter adulthood with a stable reality. She has the choice between the salvation and damnation taught by her father or the freedom hidden inside by her senses.