Mona’s teenage life defines the word ‘crap’, not tragic, just without hope; her brother is the only family she has left and he’s found God in the same obsessively sociopathic way that he originally found booze, while a weekly hump in the back of a van with a married man actually constitutes fun rather than repetitive sexual abuse. Into this world wanders Tamsin, pretty, pretentious, spoilt but ignored and with a dangerous sense of mischief born of arrogance and naivety. An intense relationship blossoms between the two girls and for the first time in her life Mona begins behave like a person enjoying the moment, suddenly aware that the world has considerably more to offer than she’d been led to believe. 'My Summer of Love' is a dark coming of age drama, excellently performed, and directed with no nonsense style from the maker of ‘Last Resort’.