Gypo
Jan Dunn
England | 2005 | 98mins | 35mm | Colour
Helen has been married to Paul for twenty-five years. She lives a monotonous and frozen existence. Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change.

Paul is on the brink of a breakdown, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap. Bitter, hypocritical, and bigoted, Paul’s biggest fear is change.

Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee, awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom – a concept taken for granted by all those around her.

Gypo, told in three revelatory narratives, each fom a particular character’s point of view, reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed.

An innovative, gripping and engaging journey into the heart of a dysfunctional British family on the Kent coast, Gypo reveals how suburban fears and tabloid sensationalism have come to perpetuate the myths surrounding refugees.