The Peach Season

<p>After the murder of her husband Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë  away toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia's safe existence. </p><p>Her daughter falls in love with enigmatic erratic Kieran but when the relationship is threatened they run away together. The safe perhaps smothering world that Celia has created unravels; her paranoia and insecurities amplified to full volume. Playing out alongside her fear we see the increasingly degrading and dangerous lifestyle that the two elopers have fallen into. </p><p><em>The Peach Season</em> is a powerful salutary tale showing what it's like to be a young person desperate for independence but also crucially what it's like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest.</p>