Isolani

Life has never been kind to 17-year-old Isla, a young Glaswegian mother who is just trying to make ends meet. Pregnant at 13, her beloved son was born deaf. Now she lives on an estate that is marked for demolition in a couple of months’ time, and she’s unable to bury the hatchet with her parents, who will stop at nothing to take their grandson away from her. Yet all of her problems suddenly seem insignificant in the light of recent events: Isla is witness to a brutal murder committed by a local thug the police have been hunting for years. The girl will now have to struggle not only with social services, but also with an ambitious prosecutor who will do anything to get her hands on the notorious criminal. It all gets even more complicated when the killer discovers there is an anonymous witness to his crime. Not knowing whom she can trust and pressured by everyone around her, the young mother starts a risky game where everything is on the line. (Camerimage)