A woman wakes in a park, while another goes to work. By the end of the day their
lives will have changed in unexpected ways.
Katie is a runaway, escaping a suffocating family life she has grown to despise.
Janey is a one-time drifter who, cleaned up now and settled down, finds everyday
routines stagnant and unfulfilling, until Katie erupts in her life.
Through hot summer days and nights, their angry mistrust locks them in to a
razor-edge life of drug deals, squat parties, brutal encounters and insistent
recollections of a past not fully buried. Around them, violent squatters and
greedy developers battle for control of the warehouses and waste land that stand
in the way of malls and apartments to obliterate the women’s hard, hothouse
world.
And cut through febrile days and poisoned earth, the constant presence of the
canal.
This story tells of intrusions of past and future on the present, of a need to
make peace with memories when the only way out is to run.
It is set in Kings Cross, in tribute to a once-feral fringe of London,
now fenced off, sold and buried.
