A Taste of Honey

We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.

A bleak, intimate portrait of a working-class teenage girl navigating abandonment and pregnancy, anchored by her unlikely friendship with a gay man in 1960s Britain.

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.