Film Synopsis:
Seventeen year old Heidi Williams (Emily Connor) leaves her foster parents and home town of Ipstone in order to search for her birth mother who abandoned her at the age of 3. Lost and confused, Heidi arrives in Kingsway; a suburban city filled with gang crime and poverty, with no friends, income or support, only half of a photo of her mother and herself. Heidi is forced to prostitute in order to pay rent for her 10th floor flat, befriending opposite resident Justin (Scott Wilson) along the way. Heidi is constantly struggling in order to keep her dreams of finding her mother alive, but when one of her highest paying clients Spike (Matthew Emson) offers her £30,000 to join and work for his notorious gang X2, Heidi sees this as an offer she cannot refuse. Becoming a key member of the gang, Heidi grows closer to the gang members in particular oblivious Spike’s wife Tracie who acts as a mother figure to Heidi. However despite Heidi’s new social status, she is now faced with rape, theft and drugs and realises she is trapped in the vicious circle of infamous X2. Witnessing murders, mentally and physically scarred Heidi confides in friend Justin who states that she is no closer to finding her mother and therefore helps Heidi plan her escape from dictating leader Spike and the lifestyle she so desperately wants to escape. Putting her plan into action, Heidi’s brutal plans see her kill and trap key X2 members in order to assure her own well being. After her barbaric actions, Spike is informed of the killings committed by Heidi and kidnaps her unaware that companion Justin is just around the corner. Heidi kills Spike and wife Tracie in a brutal and emotional showdown which leaves distraught Heidi in a suicidal state after finding the other half of the photo in Tracie’s room, realising that the woman that she had just murdered was actually her birth mother.
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Film Treatment
'To Kingsway'
Heidi Williams slowly stands outside of Kingsway Station, sobbing and hugging onto a photo of her mother who she has just moved here in search of. Slowly and sadly, she tells herself that ‘a girl should never have to grow up without her mother’. Streaming with tears, Heidi looks at the photo of her mother and walks to the nearest taxi in seek of beginning her search, Heidi’s makeup is smudged and her posture is slumped, she is extremely vulnerable and emotional and when she opens up the scrubby palm of her hand, Heidi has little but coppers in her hand. As the rain pours, she steps through puddles and leaves the taxi after being rejected by the driver. Now feeling more alone than ever, Heidi gets bumped into by a rude and inconsiderate passer-by and drops the little pennies which she had. Desperate Heidi feels ready to give up on her journey but a final look at her map persuades her to continue as Kingsway is circled and after a few sighs and cries, Heidi pleads to a local passer-by and begs him to help her in the right direction of finding her council flat and her mother, but he hastily avoids Heidi, leaving her to find her own way ‘home’.
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