Cinema can often reflect our cultural and societal issues back at us from the big screen and in the latest drama from writer and director Jane Gull, we see the plight of a young married couple in post-lockdown Britain. Love Without Walls is a social-realist romance that follows singer-songwriter Paul (Niall McNamee) and his wife Sophie (Shana Swash) as they struggle to make ends meet in London. Down on their luck in the early stages of our current cost of living crisis, they leave their unpaid bills and final reminders behind to pursue an opportunity in Southend-on-Sea which might turn their ill fortunes around, but their dire situation goes from bad to worse.

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