Rocks
Shola Bukky Bakray, or Rocks, as she's known, lives in a London council flat with her younger brother Emmanuel (D'angelou Osei Kissiedu) and their single mother. Mum is busy and stressed, leaving Rocks to spend all her free time with school friends. One day, she comes home to find her life radically altered: she is suddenly on her own with a child to take care of. Gavron could easily have steered Rocks into miserabilism, but delivers instead a surprising portrait of resilience. Rocks is mercurial, impulsive, and deeply sensitive - not unusual for her age, she sometimes makes desperately poor decisions, for what look to her like good reasons. When her closest friend Sumaya (Kosar Ali) tries to help, Rocks doesn't know how to accept it, blinded by Sumaya's two-parent household and relative comfort.
Kosar Ali....Sumaya
D'angelou Osei Kissiedu....Emmanuel
Shaneigha-Monik Greyson....Roshé
Ruby Stokes....Agnes
Tawheda Begum....Khadijah
Afi Okaidja....Yawa
Anastasia Dymitrow....Sabina
Sarah Niles....Ms. Booker
Layo-Christina Akinlude....Funke Omotoso
Sharon D. Clarke....Anita
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Islah Abdur-Rahman....Ismail
Shola Adewusi....Grandmother Omotoso
Mohammad Amiri....Mohammed
Brie-Morgan Appleton....Natasha
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