We're Not Really Here

Drama, UK, 19min Mike Newman once had a dream of being a professional footballer, he'd have done anything to achieve that dream. As a junior player he was touted as an incredible talent with offers pouring in from premier league youth set ups. But Mike's career was destroyed, the reason - a dark secret he's kept since. Now years later and having tried to bury that part of his past Mike is confronted with a new problem. His son Joey is showing the same potential Mike had and the same hunger to play is being scouted. But the ghosts of Mike's past weigh heavy on him. Torn between wanting to protect Joey and letting his son follow his dreams, can Mike overcome his past to support his son's future?