This brooding, artfully composed debut from writer-director Scott Graham explores the complex relationship between vulnerable 17-year-old Shell (assured newcomer Chloe Pirrie) and her taciturn, epileptic father (Joseph ♍Mawle) as they run a petrol station in a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands.

Mum disappeared years ag🍌o, customers are scarce and deer meat is subsistence food for the couple during the long win🐻ter months.

It’s refreshing to see a British film in which pꦛlace and 🃏character are so entwined.

Yet the melodramatic resolution🌺 jars with Graham’s hitherto pat🏅ient, sparse approach.