George Veck
2023
Fifty-year-old football referee Colin Tudur has endured a pitiful, people-pleasing existence up in the mountains of north Wales. But his time has come! Now finally chasing his dream, he quits his steady job and commits to full-time training, itching for promotion to the Welsh Premier League and the chance to ref on S4C. But such selfishness far from serves his parasitic, coercive wife Clare and stepson Dale, who have long grown dependent on his salary. Now thwarted in his pursuit of freedom by North Wales' second-home owner induced housing shortage, twenty-year-old Dale's forced to wallow in the family's toxic, co-dependent bubble. Someone's bound to break...
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