Inspired by true events, and director Henry Blake’s first-hand experience as a youth worker in a PRU (Pupil Referral Unit for children excluded from attending mainstream school), COUNTY LINES is a highly topical, vivid and moving coming-of-age story about a struggling young mother and her 14-year old son who is groomed into involvement in ‘county lines’, the lethal nationwide drug dealing networks which exploit vulnerable children into trafficking drugs, mainly heroin and crack cocaine, from urban areas to rural or market towns or coastal locations.