East London teen Shola Omotoso (Bukky Bakray) earned the nickname “Rocks” by protecting her childhood best friend Sumaya (Kosar Ali) from bullies. Now, the 16-year-olds run with an all-…
” by protecting her childhood best friend Sumaya from bullies. Now, the 16-year-olds run with an all-girl crew — Khadijah , Yawa , Sabina and Agnes — that always has their backs. Yet, whilelooks mellow as the gang screws around after school, her home life has trained her to never soften. Her father is gone, and her mother is a depressive who, as Rock’s grandmother sighs over long-distance from Nigeria, is one of those women who isn’t “cut out for motherhood.
Ideally, that’s true. The movie’s optimism comes from the way it was put together, as an after-school collective between filmmakers, volunteers and girls like Bakray, who met screenwriter Theresa Ikoko years before cameras began to roll. Both Bakray and Ikoko are Nigerian, and as they connected about their shared culture, this story began to form with help from Ikoko’s co-writer Claire Wilson.
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