This emotional and inspiring documentary details the road to recovery for rugby player Ed Jackson after an almost fatal spinal cord injury. Chronicling Jackson’s remarkable journey and embrace of mountaineering, the film explores the private and public life of a thoroughly courageous man. Ed has also established a charity which uses the outdoors and adventure to support others facing similarly challenging situations. Starkly honest, unsentimental and unflinching in its examination of a life forever changed, this beautiful film is moving and thought provoking.
Forgotten soap-star and self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie Lipsick is living the life she never asked for. An acting career derailed due to an untimely pregnancy 18 years earlier, dreams of stardom replaced with a suburban performing arts school. A husband, Cormack, who’s lust and love for life has gone as limp as his manhood. Youngest daughter, Norah, who appears to have no use for her and finally, the ungrateful eldest, Audrey, who Ronnie has given the best part of her parenting time to mould into the success she always wanted to be. But when an accident lands Audrey in a coma, Ronnie gets her second chance at the life she actually wanted by taking on her daughter's identity.