Short-filmmaker Lucy Brydon (So It Goes, Babe) makes her feature debut with this sensitive exploration of the devastating impact of acute anorexia. Unusually for a film dealing with this subject, her protagonist is not a troubled adolescent but a 30-something single mother, Stephanie (Sian Brooke), who has recently been discharged from her fourth long-term stay at a care facility for the treatment of eating disorders. Determined to get better, she finds her efforts to reconnect with her long-suffering mother Susan (Amanda Burton) and spiky 15-year-old daughter Pearl (Fabienne Piolini-Castle, excellent) routinely rebuffed. Emotionally isolated, Stephanie embarks on a fling with her nurse, Shaun (Nick Blood), who initially seems to care for her but is clearly abusing both his position and her vulnerability. Recovery is far from assured.