Take Me Home

Take Me Home

2014, 30 minutes

The unlikely friendship between a 27 year old man and a young girl in search for her mother.

Take Me Home is a short film set in a seaside town. Our main character, Blake, 27, has taken indefinite leave from the army where he has spent the last 10 years. He returns home due to the death of his father. His mother has gone on holiday and all his friends have careers or children. Feeling isolated and alone he befriends a young girl, Scarlett, 11, who has her own emotional history having lived in foster care most of her life. Scarlett isn't afraid to say what she thinks and doesn't care who she offends. She confides in Blake, and he offers to help her find her mother who left Scarlett with her nan when she was 17. Scarlett lives with her nan until she was 7 when she became ill and later passed away. At that point, Scarlett is put in foster care. Blake manages to track down her mother in another town, and with some persuasion manages to reunite them.



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