Charlotte is being chased by a man holding a pane of glass aloft over his head . She’s trying to get to Mikes house . On the dirty filthy London streets of 1985 . Smell of dog poo in the heat . Mike deals drugs and takes benzos for his mental health . The sound of him screaming is like nothing on earth , like the gates of hell have opened and the werewolf is coming for you . Yet oddly mesmerising as if you could detach from your own terror
He watches a lot of porn and has actually made some . Refers to his girlfriend as ‘quality’ , without the t . There’s one film with him and three other men doing this young woman while someone else shoots it . They announce that the girl has an orgasm . There is another guy interviewing them about it
Charlotte can hear Mikes friends talking from another room about the smell of womens’ vaginas and where their piss comes out of . Apparently a woman of 27 is ‘ quite an old filly ‘ . Maverick characters gather around , musicians , dealers , travellers , all jamming on pot
One time she comes home to find head lice on her pillow , or a couple high on something having sex in her bed . Big men break into the house to recover drug debts and she fears being used as ‘ payment when the overturned jars of coins they raided are not enough
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Charlotte doesn’t quite know there is dealing going on there until
Scarlett’s boyfriend points it out and her jaw drops right open like a puppet
Mikes girlfriend Pauline knows nothing about the porn , it would only upset her . One night she walks in on it and does her nut ‘ you fucking bastard how do you think this makes me feel, like some sort of glorified social worker ? ‘ ‘ well stop acting like one then , you’ve got your fucking cyber relationships , go and bitch about me to Leila and get out of my room ‘
And all on the suburban edge of an idyllic small town in the Dorset countryside , a magical toy town landscape fit for any children’s book with miniature trees in the distance . And tall ones nearby waving peacefully in the wind . The locals don’t like their druggy neighbours and someone writes ‘ brother fucker ‘ on the outside wall
Mike saunters down the road to the other dealer’s house , which nobody knows about apart from his house mates . The police have asked Charlotte to disclose the dealer’s address , which would put her in danger of reprisals , so she says she no . And they ask her if she’s on medication . One time they smoke in the kitchen with Mike , trying again to find out about the dealer
















