'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society women who defy being
statistics who have their own stories and loves to tell' Sophie Ward LONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM
AWARDS It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school
and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts
with the wrong kind of people drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay
in one place for very long her restlessness takes her on hitchhiking jaunts up and down the
country. Her best friend Nel is the only steady influence Jude has but Nel's life isn't as
perfect as it seems. Reports of attacks on women punctuate the news and Jude takes off again
suffocated by an affair she has been having with a married woman. But what she doesn't realise
is that the violence is moving ever closer to home: there is Janice across the road who lives
in fear of being beaten up again by her pimp and Nel whose perfect life is coming undone at
her boyfriend's hands. At the same time infamous murderers Fred and Rosemary West are
stalking the country on the lookout for girls like Jude.
