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The Last Tree
Eleven-year-old Femi (Tai Golding) is raised by foster mother Mary (Denise Black) in rural Lincolnshire, surrounded by colour-blind friends at school who help him to forget the neglect of the past. This idyllic childhood is shattered when Femi's biological mother Yinka (Gbemisola Ikumelo) returns unannounced to reclaim her boy and spirits the lad to a cramped council flat on the mean streets of south London. Far from the fresh air and open minds of the countryside, Femi struggles to fit in and he becomes an easy target for bullying classmates at school as the son of a Nigerian immigrant. As years pass, teenager Femi (now played by Sam Adewumni) is hardened by his harsh environment and he retreats from a world that had previously nurtured him. A local hard man called Mace (Demmy Ladipo) spots Femi and sets out to integrate the teenager into his criminal empire. The temptation is great but schoolteacher Mr Williams (Nicholas Pinnock) vociferously encourages Femi to remain on a righteous and moral path.
