Lost Christmas

Manchester, Christmas Eve. Goose is twelve. A year ago, after an argument he caused, his parents died in a car crash. He lives with his grandmother now, and her memory is going. In the street he runs into a man called Anthony: wrecked, dishevelled, with no idea who he is. But Anthony can do one thing: when he touches someone he sees what that person has lost. He sees what Goose has lost, and the two of them set out to find it. John Hay directs the British television film; eighty-eight minutes, with Eddie Izzard as Anthony and Jason Flemyng and Geoffrey Palmer in the cast. It was made for the BBC and broadcast at Christmas, and Manchester itself stands in it like a character.