The Other Side of The Lake

2016, 100 minutes

Original Screenplay by Rosita Clarke based on a short story "Lost love" by Jim Burke

Drifting between the 18th and 21st Century the film drama explores the reckless and enduring nature of true love and the coming of age of a young teenage boy. Set in Dorset with its past smuggling history and its modern tourism trade, 'The Other Side of the Lake' is ever present Jack Dantam, a notorious smuggler who earns a living from selling contraband goods is in love with a woman of reasonable means,Eliza Little, who lives alone in a house on the outskirts of a Dorset coastal village. Their affair is decadent and passionate but not always approved of by the locals. Do they care? Not a jot! They are in love and swear to each other they will never be parted. The community stand together in dangerous times Tom Kears is 15 years old and on holiday with his parents who happen to stay at the very same house, modernised and now let to tourists. Tom finds his bedroom strangely familiar and soon after the family's arrival Tom begins to feel that he is not himself . Unwittingly, he becomes inextricably involved in the lives of Jack Dantam and Eliza Little who lived and died tragically so many years before. Is Tom ill? His parents think so Is Tom the catalyst to finally reunite the lost lovers? Eliza and Jack think so?

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