"The Disappeared" starring Harry Treadway

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By Daniel Etherington

Five months earlier, it transpires, Matthew had taken advantage of his dad being out to have a party in their South London flat. When bored younger brother Tom (Lewis Lemperuer Palmer) wandered out to the estate's playground, he was never seen again. TV appeals had no effect, the cops have given up and Tom's fate remains unknown. All this makes Jack simmer with rage. The mentally fragile Matthew, on the other hand, starts to hear and even glimpse Tom muttering such things as, "You never came for me, Matthew. I waited for you. Where were you?" He even has disturbing dreams of being buried alive.

Is this Matthew's troubled imagination? Or is the disappeared Tom trying to tell him something? Certainly Matthew believes it's the latter, and encouraged by his sympathetic new neighbour Amy (Ros Leeming), another teen with family troubles, he finds himself on a path of investigation. This brings him in contact with creepy and/or well-meaning social services case worker Adrian Ballan (Alex Jennings) and mysterious local psychic Shelley (Nikki Amuka-Bird), dodgy journo Saks (Finlay Robertson), and takes him to several landmarks in the film's slightly elastic version of South London including grotty tower blocks, old wharfs, revamped marinas, leafy churches and even a tunnel in the woods that Matthew finds himself drawn to.