The first film that we watched under our BFI subscription. Set in 1991 (so no-one has internet or mobile phones) in a depressed Cornish seaside town where the tin mine has closed down, the film centres on two young people - a girl of 11 (celebrates her 12th birthday during the film) and her mother who has recently separated from her father, and a boy of about the same age whose father has "gone away" and the boy hopes that he will return.
They form a friendship and explore the creepy derelict mine, where they have some experiences that are probably consensual hallucinations - the boy also repeatedly sees his absent father at a distance. It's clever and atmospheric, and says a lot about children with absent or departed parents.
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