MASTER

Careworker Khal leads a life of extremes: at work he’s submissive to his demanding patient, Lawrence; in his spare time, he’s a bombastically aspiring performance poet, giving tips to his young mentee Bilal. But with his relationship with Lawrence under threat, and spurned by the woman he loves, Khal must go to extraordinary lengths to stop his universe from collapsing.

This narrative short looks at the nature of control, and how people’s lives are often finely-balanced solar systems that can fall out of kilter at the slightest change of orbit. The aim was also to represent minority characters in a unique and non-stereotypical manner.