Raging Grace

A rich vein of social and political commentary runs through this spooky haunted house tale. Joy is almost invisible to the rich Londoners whose houses she cleans. With cheeky young daughter Grace to support and huge visa fees to pay if she wants to avoid deportation, Joy has to take any work she can find. Zarcilla’s intelligent screenplay hits high gear when Joy lands a job as live-in caretaker at the musty manor of Mr Garrett, a terminally ill aristocrat with a haughty and patronising adult niece. Stark reality and scary fantasy are memorably combined as revelations about Garrett’s family history and Grace’s curiosity about her strange new home bring all kinds of demons into the open.