The Poet and the Prostitute

Son to a drug-dependent, single-parent, work-from-home prostitute, 11-year-old Ryan defends his mother from abusive clients and tackles ridicule from schoolyard bullies. Seeking solace in time-lost literature, he becomes a pained poet before he has learnt how to play.

Kim does the best she can to raise him, but with little means to support herself, her boy, and her spiraling drug addiction, she struggles to even keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Darren, a particularly abusive client, is making their life a living Hell too.

Then Kim meets Byron, a similarly lost soul, seeking any kind of human connection even if he must pay for the company. Kim and Byron form an unlikely union, with Ryan in the trio forming something of an oddball, makeshift, temporary family unit. It does not take long before Darren finds out, and becomes even more determined to ruin their lives….

Tadhg Culley is a professional screenwriter, published author, and poet from the UK. He has written 10 feature film screenplays, eight TV series scripts, eight published books, one novella, one memoir, one collection of short stories, over 300 poems, and many other short-form works, delving into documentary, theater, animation, and games. He is a BAFTA Scholar and graduate of both the National Film and TV School (NFTS) and the University of Creative Arts (UCA).