Peter Pan meets kitchen-sink realism in this forgotten British runaway fairytale.
Zena has been abandoned by her parents and left in the care of her aunt Bee Melvin. She is treated poorly by two of her cousins, and taking the lead from the story Peter and Wendy, she runs away from home with her younger cousin.
Acting
Petula Clark's brittle, wounded performance as reluctant guardian Bee.
Direction
Annett balances magical thinking with grim social realism.
Director
Paul Annett
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