A Taste of Honey

“We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.”

In 1961 Britain, sixteen-year-old Jo (Rita Tushingham) shares cramped rented rooms with her mother Helen (Dora Bryan), who drifts from man to man and has little attention left for her daughter. After a brief affair with Jimmy (Paul Danquah) leaves Jo pregnant and alone, Tony Richardson follows her as Helen remarries and moves out. Her one steady support is Geoffrey (Murray Melvin), and Jo faces what is coming with a sharp tongue and no one else to lean on.