Don’t Destroy Me
Author(s):
Michael Hastings
Company:
Two’s Company and Karl Sydow, in association with Tilly Films
Running time:
2h approx
“All children whose parents have been busted up by war – never are the same. We’re a special breed.”
August 1956. It’s a day of excitement. Young Sammy comes to live with his father and stepmother, 15 years after they escaped as refugees from Nazi Europe. Raised from infancy by an aunt in Croydon, he now comes to London to work as an apprentice. But the young man’s arrival – eagerly and nervously anticipated – disrupts the secrets and settled ways of this rackety Jewish household and their neighbours, in ways nobody could have foreseen.
