"He who would be a leader, let him be a bridge"
- the mabinogion
JOHN FAIR is 13 years old and lives on the edge of town in the vale of neath in south wales.
an only child from a difficult home, he is known as an angry loner in school and struggles to fit in.
When he's not fighting with other boys, being excluded from school, or dealing with the social services that are always being called on his fighting parents, he is to be found lost in the valley and beyond, seeking solace by walking freely and camping wild in the edge wildernesses and sparse leftover forest lands of south wales.
john fair is a teenager like any teenager, but unbeknown to john and his parents, he is different.
for John is... fair...
one night after a vicious, violent row with his drunk, bullying father...
john walks out under a full moon into the vale, never to come home, he thinks.
and it is there, under a lone hawthorn tree high in the valley, john encounters something otherworldly, something of the land he loves, something he knows no one else would ever believe.
Something or someone...
of the spirit of wales...
And so begins a thrilling adventure into one child's journey into adulthood, wonder and the fantastic, as the forgotten fairy lore and shapeshifting magic that wales once embodied comes crashing back into the present - leading the viewer into a radical adventure where social realism meets the supernatural, where the ravages of climate change, contemporary capitalism and colonial history collide to reawaken the consciousness of a nation through one fair boy.
