Boxes

Liam is nineteen fresh out of high school and enjoying a life of parties and pills. He lives with his grandmother. He keeps her at an arm’s length and so when she has a sudden stroke he ignores her call and doesn’t find out until he reads a text message sent from Wellington Hospital. He rushes to the hospital in the middle of the night drunk and hopped up on cheap stimulants. He is greeted by a closed door and a nurse who tells him he has to wait to see his grandma. Thus Liam spends a night and a morning in the hospital contemplating his decisions while befriending a young boy who is waiting for news of his mother. A social-realist drama Boxes is a story about regret relationships and the widespread existence of small tragedies.