SYNOPSIS
Directed by Phil Davis (Quadrophenia, The Firm) and produced by long time Ken Loach collaborator Sally Hibbin, Hold Back The Night is the story of two youngsters, Charleen and Declan, on the run from the past, their families and the police, and making their way to the Scottish Highlands. Both are damaged, abused, complex and difficult but they begin to come to terms with each other and their new found friends, including Killer, an unlovable pit-bull terrier and Vera, whose dying wish is to see the sunrise on the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney. The calm, barren, beautiful landscape of the Scottish countryside gradually begins to exert its healing influence and Charleen and Declan learn to become friends and then lovers, lay to rest the ghosts of their past and trust the world again.
