
Director Andrea Arnold follows her astonishing debut feature RED ROAD with FISH TANK a compelling drama centring on a 15 year-old girl Having been expelled from school Mia (Katie Jarvis in a star-making debut performance) spends her time hanging out in a derelict flat near to her family's council estate home & drinking whatever alcohol she can lay her hands on Her young life already spiralling out of control is complicated further when her mother Joanne (Kierston Wareing IT'S A FREE WORLD) brings home her new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender HUNGER INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) While Connor appears to be a well-rounded & decent man there is an instant connection between him & Mia even though there's much hostility on her part Could this be the manifestation of a teenage crush & Connor's awkward reaction to it or are his intentions something altogether more sinister?