This "sun-kissed love letter to teen angst" is "a lush, beguiling film" in the manner of vintage Terrence Malick or Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides", said Kevin Maher in The Times.
The plot follows a group of school leavers over the course of "a sweltering A-level results day in August", as they breeze around London "intent on revelry". What they don't know is that one of them is secretly struggling with a life-threatening illness and is morbidly aware that this might be her farewell. This is Ziba (Deba Hekmat), a brilliant Iranian-British girl who had been set to study astrophysics at University College London; her "grim prognosis" injects the proceedings with "a sudden sense of urgency".
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