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Published 22 Dec 04
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synopsis
A boy gets chatting to a girl at a party. She is someone he knows vaguely from school but has never taken the time to talk to before. Realising how horribly drunk he is, he decides to go and sober up a bit. In his search for a space away from the hectic party he chances upon a group of older lads who give him a spliff. He passes out and comes to later to find the lads have returned and with them is a semi-conscious girl – the girl from earlier.
The boy is unable to intervene as the boys take advantage of the girl’s state and rape her. In the morning he is filled with remorse and sorrow for his lack of action. When the girl wakes up he is sitting beside her and she assumes they have had sex. She confides in him that it was her first time and she is ashamed that she was so drunk that she can’t remember anything. The boy comforts her and she says that she is glad that it was with him. She goes out to the bathroom and the boy runs away – overcome by the enormity of the lie he has become a part of.
© 2003 Matthew Thompson
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useful links
UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund Lighthouse BBC Films distributed by Short Circuit Films more shorts with similar themes
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