The Child In Time

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. With tenderness and insight, the film explores a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief. With the passage of time, a balance of sorts returns, until hope surfaces and triumphs unexpectedly.

Critic Reviews:

• “A rarity: nuanced, unmawkish, unsentimental. It steered us through this unthinkable limbo… in an intellectual, almost spiritual way, examining too the very meaning of childhood, time and sanity, yet ended with a sense of hope.” – Times (UK)

• “The TV drama is a simpler thing then, of course it is. But it's still a deeply affecting portrait of loss and what that does to love. It is painful, but not entirely without hope, given time.” – Guardian
• “Hard to recommend, as it was so sad but, on the other hand, it was so good at what it is like to be so sad.” – The Mail on Sunday (UK)