Variety describes it as a film "mixing ferocity with tenderness, delicacy with tenacity" - exactly like the unusual school it explores. One of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers takes a vérité look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. Mulberry's heroically forbearing staff greets extreme, sometimes violent, behavior with consolation and gentle restraint. Kim Longinotto's unblinking camera discovers in this strategy an arduous process and nearly unhinged environment, but also the daily dramas of troubled kids trying to survive and the moments of hope they achieve with Mulberry's determined team. By Kim Longinotto.