Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned.

After a horrific acid attack at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, Jade (Vicky Knight) is discharged from hospital. The doctors are pleased with her physical progress, but Jade is still learning to cope with the trauma of the incident which has left her seriously injured and with life-changing facial burns. As the impacts of her trauma on family life and relationships make themselves felt, she must dig deep to get her life back.

Acclaimed Dutch writer-director Sacha Polak (Zurich) makes her English-language debut in this intense drama yet her direction is subtle, and newcomer Vicky Knight—herself badly burned as a child—is a genuine revelation in the lead role. It is a portrait of a young woman with tremendous resilience, who is an unusually complex and convincing heroine making her own choices, striving to find her identity after it has been violently stripped away from her.

“I’m very proud that we’ve made this film and I hope that it can give the message to other people that being different is OK and there’s nothing wrong with being different”—Vicky Knight

Sacha Polak  |  Netherlands/UK/Belgium/Ireland  |  2019  |  104 mins.