(Top Boy/2011) Set on a London housing estate, lives are lived along lines where challenges come in all forms, even ? especially ? for kids. Thirteen-year-old Ra?Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) finds he has to grow-up fast when his mentally ill mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan Brewster) is suddenly hospitalized. At the same time his mum?s friend Heather (Kierston Wareing), pregnant and penniless, enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her baby the chances she never had ? ?even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place?.
Meanwhile, in the courtyards of Summerhouse Estate a thriving but invisible business is being run by Dushane (Ashley Walters) and his friend Sully (Kane Robinson). Charming, sexy and clever, the 26-year-old Dushane has ?already run out of things to be ? except this?. When he attracts the attention of ex-convict and drug dealer Bobby Raikes (Geoff Bell) he seizes an opportunity to be more, to have more, to be Top Boy. But others will pay a heavy price for Dushane?s ambitions.