In the Moss

<p>Exponentially increasing levels of unemployment and simmering racial tension in Moss Side inner Manchester exploded into mass riots on the 8th of July 1981 following the siege of a police station.</p><p><br></p><p><em>In the Moss</em> frames the events from the perspectives of Janet a student nurse working in A&E and Nav a Sikh police officer on the streets. Both crave a return to normality and just want to fit in but when violence breaks out and a teenage boy is stabbed they are thrust together and forced to confront questions that arise about what really happened in the Moss.</p>