With his upcoming asylum-seeker drama eagerly anticipated, we look back at director Frank Berry’s second feature, this exceptional drama about an 18-year-old man who gets caught holding drugs and must serve a prison sentence. There he becomes an easy target for kingpin David as he learns the hard way, how the system inside works. Drawing on his extensive research in prisons and rehabilitation programmes, Berry achieves a gripping plot, which draws on questions of recidivism, justice, friendship and control.