I'm Going to Mum's

Jacob (8) is caught between two households. His parents Anthony and Gwen have split up and their escalating hostility plays out through the clothes they force him to wear. Nice clothes musn’t travel to the enemy parent, slogan T-shirts become tools of spite and Jacob winds up looking bizarre. Bullied and fed up, Jacob embarks upon a peaceful protest: he’ll put anything on, he just won’t take it off. Jacob stubbornly transforms himself into a smelly Michelin man, pushing his parents to the limits. Frazzled and frightened, they do the unthinkable: they sit down and talk. Jacob can’t believe his balaclava-ed eyes! The layers come off and Jacob emerges to play under the sprinkler in the back yard. The divorce hasn’t gone away, but some of the baggage has.