County Lines

Conrad plays Tyler, a discontented 14 year old whose mum Toni is caught in a cycle of poverty. An older boy Simon gets Tyler to run errands for him involving moving drugs around the countryside.

Writer director Blake spent more than a decade as a youth worker, and his film presents an alarming yet compassionate portrait of a headline-grabbing scandal that combines the warm artistry of a coming-of-age picture with the cold, hard realty of child exploitation.