...he's a skilled carpenter who suffers a heart attack and is recovering while taking drugs to prevent a further attack. Instead of asking for light duties he leaves paid employment to help a neighbor by working as a handyman doing up their council house.
Gradually he grapples with computers and the digital world that was passing him by and puts together his CV that is good enough to earn him a job interview but he turns it down!
Meanwhile the neighbor he is helping is starving herself to share the family's food with Daniel. She is leafleting her neighborhood for cleaning work but Dan is not selling his handyman or carpentry skills to earn some much needed cash.
Meanwhile the DWP's digital bureaucracy grinds exceedingly fine with rules that must be obeyed for claimants fulfilling their personal commitments to receive welfare benefits and to avoid sanction.
Unused to such discipline and computers Dan is sucked down into a spiral of despair.
The film had me screaming at the TV for Dan to sell his handyman services while continuing to help his neighbor. At no time did he stop work but he simply didn't take control of his life.
I guess that I was meant to feel sorry for him but I couldn't.
Gradually he grapples with computers and the digital world that was passing him by and puts together his CV that is good enough to earn him a job interview but he turns it down!
Meanwhile the neighbor he is helping is starving herself to share the family's food with Daniel. She is leafleting her neighborhood for cleaning work but Dan is not selling his handyman or carpentry skills to earn some much needed cash.
Meanwhile the DWP's digital bureaucracy grinds exceedingly fine with rules that must be obeyed for claimants fulfilling their personal commitments to receive welfare benefits and to avoid sanction.
Unused to such discipline and computers Dan is sucked down into a spiral of despair.
The film had me screaming at the TV for Dan to sell his handyman services while continuing to help his neighbor. At no time did he stop work but he simply didn't take control of his life.
I guess that I was meant to feel sorry for him but I couldn't.