Nails and Me

Why would I want to join the Labour Party when it ain’t interested in singing any song that I know the words to?

When James arrives home late one night he finds a ‘shaven headed’ young man, Nails, stood in his lounge staring out the window. Who is he? Why is he there? And, what does he want? And, what’s happened to James’ sister Polly? 

As the story unfolds we meet Stripes, Nails’ brother, a mentally scarred soldier back from two tours in Afghanistan. We also meet  his sister Moz, a young single mother forced to work in the adult film industry to pay her rent and put food on the table.

James is a disappointment to his family and himself. His sister, meanwhile, is a rising young star in the Labour Party, and his father an intellectual heavyweight in the world of left-wing economics. 

People are not always what they seem but are the odds always stacked in favour of life’s ‘winners’ ? Is justice ever served by revenge?

In a world of the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’, what are the rules? Can we serve ‘two masters’ at the same time? And, how far are we willing to go to achieve our hopes and dreams in life?

At the end of the day, is it possible to be a family when you have nowhere to call home?