Unconditional

The teenage twins Owen and Kristen come under the sway of a charismatic young loan shark. The man offers love to one of them, but on a condition. The film presents that condition not as a romantic obstacle but as a bargain set by someone using the power he holds; debt, the difference in age and an inequality of knowledge all work at once. The account does not blame the young people and does not explain the man either; it records step by step how the relationship is built. The bond between brother and sister is the story’s only steadying element. Harry McEntire and Madeleine Clark appear in Bryn Higgins’s ninety two minute British film, completed in 2012.