Pasty and Sabrina’s love for each other shine through a life of drugs, alcohol and prostitution in this short montage. Heroin, crack and cider paid for by begging and the occasional night on the game, this film shows the reality of some London’s drug addicts, but having each other is all they really need. The beauty of their love contrasts with the grim reality of the underclass lifestyle – the tatty hostel where Sabrina has to come and go by the window as she’s banned from Pasty’s flat, the days on the street with a sleeping bag and a paper cup, asking for spare change, and the problems of finding a vein for the next hit. Both victims of sexual and physical abuse in childhood, they give each other the love and security they were denied in youth, and this love makes a superficially depressing reality actually a joyous existence with their friendship with Sabrina’s ex-boyfriend Justin giving an extra dimension to their relationship and additional strength. The film is now being used by sections of the Cornish and Welsh NHS as an insight into the real lives of the addicts (or ‘Service Users’) they try to help. One doctor said that after seeing the film, he’d never look at a junkie or beggar in the same way again. Love really does conquer all. Thanks to Sabrina, Pasty and Justin. Jai Shree Ganesh.
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