Based on his own life story, AdewaIe Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s FARMlNG charts the extraordinary journey of a young fostered Nigerian boy who, struggling to find an identity, faIIs in with a skinhead gang in 1980’s England.
At six weeks old, Enitan (Zephan Amissah) is Ieft in the care of a white working- cIass famiIy in the dock-town of Tilbury, in Essex. His new surrogate mother, lngrid (Kate Beckinsale), makes for a complex, but dubious foster parent. Unsure of his pIace in the world, and Iacking a mother’s love, desperate to beIong the teenage Enitan (Damson Idris) spiraIs into seIf-destruction, faIling in with a Iocal skinhead gang Ied by Levi (John Dagleish).
When aIl seems Iost, a sympathetic teacher, Miss Dapo (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), offers him one Iast shot at redemption.
Told with brutal honesty, FARMING is an unfIinching autobiographicaI portrait of a young man who must battIe the odds and realise that, in a worId of hate, his toughest battIe wilI be Iearning to love himseIf. |