Boxes

Liam is nineteen fresh out of high school and enjoying a life of parties and pills He lives with his grandmother He keeps her at an arms length and so when she has a sudden stroke he ignores her call and doesnt find out until he reads a text message sent from Wellington Hospital He rushes to the hospital in the middle of the night drunk and hopped up on cheap stimulants He is greeted by a closed door and a nurse who tells him he has to wait to see his grandma Thus Liam spends a night and a morning in the hospital contemplating his decisions while befriending a young boy who is waiting for news of his mother A socialrealist drama Boxes is a story about regret relationships and the widespread existence of small tragedies