As he battles against this absurd bureaucracy, Daniel befriends Katie (Hayley Squires), a young single mother with two kids, who is also struggling with the system after relocating to Newcastle from a London homeless shelter.

Deserving of its recent Palme d’Or win (the second for its director),  Ken Loach delivers a powerful work of quiet outrage that is at turns intensely moving, darkly humorous and deeply heartbreaking.