The Neighbourhood

An intimate portrait of seventeen-year-old Danny Doyle and his sister, Laura, growing up in Mission Hill, a tough urban neighborhood. They struggle, each in very different ways, to overcome the limitations of working class life. Danny, an appealing, street-wise kid is frustrated by his dependence on his mother and sister, bored with school, and full of restless energy. On the edge of manhood, his intense need to prove himself crystalizes in various attempts to make fast money. His forays into petty street crime soon escalate until he finds himself on a reckless collision course that inevitably explodes into a dramatic confrontation with the law.