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First on Channel 4 Nov 2007; rpt More4 Sat 12 Jan 2008 10pm
Based on the award-winning novel by Jonathan Trigell, Boy A is a powerful coming of age drama that raises difficult questions about the morals of our times.
It's a fictional story about Jack (Andrew Garfield), a young man who has spent most of his life in institutions paying for a terrible crime he committed as a minor.
At 24 years old Jack is released into an unrecognisable adult world with a new name, a new job; a new life. Only his case worker, Terry (Peter Mullan), knows his true identity.
Anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack, desperate to re-build his life and seize this second chance, has to contend with not being able to tell the people he gets to know, and love, of his true past and the monstrous secret he must keep hidden.
