| Director | Charlotte Regan |
|---|---|
| Box office | $1.2 million |
In London, twelve-year-old Georgie has been living alone since her mother Vicky died, pretending to social services that she is being cared for by her uncle. Only her friend Ali knows the truth, and helps her steal bikes to support herself. Georgie believes that she is working through the five stages of grief, but insists on keeping her home exactly as Vicky left it, and comforts herself with a video on her phone of her and her mother.
Georgie's summer holiday is thrown into disarray by the arrival of her estranged father Jason, whom she has never met. Determined to stay, he threatens to reveal Georgie's secret to social services when she tells him to get out. Jason, who has been living in Ibiza selling nightclub tickets, wins over Ali, but Georgie is not swayed, especially after finding a bullet in his pocket.
Jason attempts to reach out to Georgie by helping her scrape the serial number off a stolen bike, but any trust between them is lost when he angrily catches her snooping through his phone. Georgie has a falling out with Ali after he defends Jason, and one of her baby teeth falls out during dinner. She wakes up as Jason is trying to slip money under her pillow; he is surprised she is unfamiliar with the tooth fairy, but she refuses the money.
Jason joins Georgie as she attempts to steal a bike, and they narrowly escape the police, only to realise that evening that she has lost her phone. Storming off to search for it, Georgie crosses paths with her schoolmate Layla and, in a moment of rage, beats her up. That night, Georgie sleeps in a room in her flat that she keeps padlocked, where she imagines climbing a tower of scrap metal into the sky.
Georgie bonds with Jason as he takes her metal detecting in a field, where he plants a bracelet for her. He explains that it was his favourite childhood hobby, having found the bullet as a boy and kept it ever since. He buys Georgie a cake, which she leaves on Layla's doorstep. At home, she explains what happened, and he upsets Layla's mother by offering money as an apology.
That night, Jason cuts the padlock and enters Georgie's private room, where she has begun building a tower out of scrap metal with plans to reach her mother in Heaven. Georgie wakes up to find Jason has gone, leaving behind his mobile phone and instructions to listen to a voicemail from Vicky, begging Jason to come home and be a father to Georgie.
Georgie searches fruitlessly for Jason until she finds him at a playground, playing football with some boys. He explains that he wanted to tell her about the voicemail but was too cowardly, and Georgie admits that she wants him in her life. Agreeing that they will both make mistakes, Jason and Georgie embrace life together as father and daughter.
Social services are no wiser to the fact that Georgie's uncle never existed; Layla is happy with the cake and to have got two weeks off school; and Georgie and Jason continue to steal bikes and get on well with one another. As she repaints her living room with her father, Georgie reconciles with Ali.