After a vicious attack, Emma and her mother leave their housing estate. They drive their old car to a place they think is safe. It is an isolated rural area near a dark lake and a nuclear power station. Emma starts to develop a friendship with a local boy who teaches her to face and overcome her fears. After all, the traumatic past could catch up with her at any moment. Meanwhile, Emma and her mother start to drift apart. A mystical thriller set amidst breathtaking Welsh landscapes, its narrator an old Japanese woman. The directorial debut of the winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes 2007 (for the script of “California Dreamin”).
Catherine Linstrum is a British writer and film director, born in 1966 in Leeds. Her early career was as an academic specializing in French poetry. She later worked as a documentary director for BBC Wales before starting to make narrative films of her own, including the BAFTA-winning short film “Nadger” (2010). Her passion is for storytelling, and her work is always about exploring the boundaries of human experience and emotion, as well as the places just beyond our material world. As well as developing her own material, she also works with other writers as a mentor and consultant. “Nuclear” (2019) is her first feature as a director.