Drama - Coming Up - The Circle
Two survivors flee the scene of a massacre. Through their meeting, they slowly start to re-build their lives but can they escape their trauma?
See the film on Monday 25 Aug at 23.45pm on Channel 4
A modern-day western, The Circle is about redemption and revenge.
Sirjad, a deeply traumatised man, draws a circle around a derelict, deserted petrol station and decrees that within this boundary he cannot be touched.
When a half-dead woman collapses on the edge of his circle, he takes her in to discover they are both running from the same thing - a terrible massacre.
Through their nightmares they develop a friendship and life settles down until Maya decides that she must exact revenge.
Sirjad has the information she needs to bring the murderer to justice but will he help her?
Written by Waris Islam
Directed by Tinge Krishnan
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