- Ellie has so many debts she is forced to put her house up for sale. The prospective buyer is John, the school bad boy, now a handsome and charming property developer who is happy to let her stay on as his tenant. They begin to fall for each other until Ellie's best friend, a married woman who recently had a fling with John and may be less than impartial, informs her that he has made his money not from houses but by illegal drug-dealing. He denies it and claims he loves her. Which of them is she to believe if she is to 'move on' and improve her situation?—don @ minifie-1
- Ellie Morgan (Christine Tremarco) is a single thirtysomething in debt. Her wages are not enough to cover her expenses and she's in serious trouble. The only option left to her is to sell her home to clear her debts, but the market is dead and no-one is buying. No-one, that is, except John Mulligan (Richard Armitage) - an old flame from school and a bad boy made good, who's now in the property game. Ellie thinks John is the answer to all her problems and agrees to sell to him, but when her best friend Maria (Jo-Ann Knowles) finds out, she tells Ellie that John is a well-known drug dealer and the money she will make from him has blood on it. They row, and Ellie struggles to justify the sale after what Maria has told her. She confronts John, who has a revelation of his own - he and the married Maria used to be lovers. He tells Ellie that Maria is jealous and will do and say anything to wreck any romance between him and Ellie. The two friends fall out - Ellie is convinced Maria is lying about the drugs just to ruin things for her and John. Ellie goes through with the sale of the house and pays off her debts, including a hefty amount to her mother (Sharon Duce), who tells Ellie that no man is worth losing friends over, and to make up with Maria, but Ellie is too in love with John to listen. While packing for a trip to New York, John gets a phone call and tells Ellie he has to go to Leeds - there's a problem with one of his property deals - but tells her to go on ahead and he'll get the next flight over. Ellie reluctantly agrees and set off for the airport alone, but on the way she has a 'feeling' that all is not well and pulls the car over and searches her suitcase.....finding a packet of heroin John has obviously hidden inside. Shocked, it is Maria Ellie turns to, who urges her to call the police immediately. Weeks later - John is in prison and Ellie's mum is reflecting how close her daughter came to disaster, but Ellie is still distraught at how bad her usually sound judgment was, and it's clear she still has feelings for John. She goes to the prison to see him, she has to know why he did what he did. John is bitter at her betrayal and tells Ellie she's not as squeaky clean as she likes to think, and reminds her that everything she now has and the debts she has managed to pay off, came from the same source that put him inside, and asks her how that makes her feel. John makes Ellie realise that not everything is black and white. The film finishes ambiguously, with the viewer not sure if things are truly over between Ellie and John.
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