Dustbin Baby

The film follows the story of young teen April, whose troubled life began in a dustbin—a newborn baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted, but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour. On the morning of her fourteenth birthday, April has a devastating row with her foster mother, Marion, and leaves the house determined to find out where she really comes from, who she really is, and maybe, just maybe, find her real mother. Telling no one what she's up to or where she's going, April skips school and begins the search she's dreamed about all her life. It's a blur of social workers, children's homes, and special schools as April revisits and recalls the key scenes of her fragmented past. It's a painful journey, sometimes frightening, but there's also friendship, love, and laughter. And now she's started, there's no going back—April must find her mother.