But the Main News Tonight
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
A naive young cleaner unwittingly films malpractice on a hospital ward. Years later the video archive is analysed and the shocking circumstances uncovered. Teenager Florence Mary Evans aka 'Moss', is…
But the Main News Tonight
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
A naive young cleaner unwittingly films malpractice on a hospital ward. Years later the video archive is analysed and the shocking circumstances uncovered. Teenager Florence Mary Evans aka 'Moss', is plagued with an identity crisis she struggles to understand. Disowned by her mother Lilith, she insists Moss is not the baby she gave birth to and divorces her husband Maurice. Taking over the nighttime cleaning shifts of her alcoholic father at Longbrook Hospital, Moss fails to understand there's a problem. She's barely fourteen but her savvy father just gave her a name badge that says Beryl Beaumont. She knows the wards, the children love her yellow video camera but amusing herself filming long shifts takes a toll. Videotapes cost money. The hospital store cupboards are out so when she learns that Videobox, a kooky video dating service mails you tapes of prospective dates Moss submits her own and awaits a response. Videobox administrator Max Torrance has concerns about her age and rejects her. A passport photocopy and a silent video she's produced called 'Mia Zoin in Crystal Madness' satisfy Torrance. Cue hundreds of tapes. Cue Demelza, an oddball loner fascinated with Moss's carefree life.As the years pass, cleaning gets dirty. In 1998, Longbrook Human Resources finally take measures to find the ghost in their machine whilst a front desk reception worker begins her own noticeboard campaign to learn about her mother-in-law Beryl Beaumont's knowledge of the mysterious 'yellow girl'. Falsified employment records and years of back pay force Moss to agree to work for the hospital as their star witness in a pending criminal trial of massive importance. There is nothing she didn't see on the wards but as the trial looms, Moss disappears knowing her status as a whistleblower will ostracise her from life. In 2000, calling on Demelza's eagerness to help, a fateful meeting with journalist Jamie Briggs selling Moss as Longbrook's now infamous 'missing witness' is arranged. Unaware of a familial link, the intrusive Dem, inadvertently exposes Briggs as Moss's traumatising childhood bully. Briggs, the eldest daughter of Lilith Evans, leaves the media and attempts to partially reconcile with Moss via contact with her fellow hospital worker Mr.Morgan, a Morgue operative. He reveals the true scandals at play in Longbrook. Demelza was a trainee nurse sacked for gross negligence in 1993 and since 1994 has been identified by HR as a potential scapegoat in the pending criminal trial. Under persuasion from Demelza, Moss finally calls on her Dad's original area of expertise before alcoholism; broadcast engineering. Assembling her video archive from the 1990s takes time but in 2003, through Dem as messenger, Maurice Evans delivers hundreds of hours of analysed videotapes to solicitor Martin Cullen in a ready to play format on computer and hard-drive. Within moments of viewing Cullen realises the Longbrook scandal is not only bigger than anyone realised, it was documented by an underage cleaner. Connecting the dots and calling on former Videobox presenter Max Torrance, now a profile newsreader, Cullen rallies for answers knowing the case is now out of the spotlight and needs a catalyst to be headlines again. Dem and Moss talk about the case and Moss brings her own revelation to the table. She understands Maurice isn't her biological father but knows the real reason why he was prepared to edit the tapes; Moss had filmed Mary Florence, his real daughter, dying on the ward as a fifteen year old in 1992. Detailing her experience further, Moss confesses to spiritual experiences on the ward. Unsettled, Dem cites Martin Cullen and Max Torrance's observations of lighting irregularities in the tapes before Moss insists that Mary has a message for her father. Torrance asks Moss to discuss her personal problems. She explains she frightened her mother as a child by telling her about America, the film industry and how she was a silent movie star in the 1910s. Torrance explains that the scenario has to be rationalised for people to understand it but accepts Moss and to her delight, addresses her as Mia, the person she remembers being. In person, Torrance explains that in broadcast operations it's rare for him to meet genuine people. Moss passes over two photographs she has of a silent movie actress confirming the likeness.
But the Main News Tonight
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Film Details
A naive young cleaner unwittingly films malpractice on a hospital ward. Years later the video archive is analysed and the shocking circumstances uncovered. Teenager Florence Mary Evans aka 'Moss', is plagued with an identity crisis she struggles to understand.
Disowned by her mother Lilith, she insists Moss is not the baby she gave birth to and divorces her husband Maurice. Taking over the nighttime cleaning shifts of her alcoholic father at Longbrook Hospital, Moss fails to understand there's a problem. She's barely fourteen but her savvy father just gave her a name badge that says Beryl Beaumont.
She knows the wards, the children love her yellow video camera but amusing herself filming long shifts takes a toll. Videotapes cost money. The hospital store cupboards are out so when she learns that Videobox, a kooky video dating service mails you tapes of prospective dates Moss submits her own and awaits a response.
Videobox administrator Max Torrance has concerns about her age and rejects her. A passport photocopy and a silent video she's produced called 'Mia Zoin in Crystal Madness' satisfy Torrance. Cue hundreds of tapes.
Cue Demelza, an oddball loner fascinated with Moss's carefree life.As the years pass, cleaning gets dirty. In 1998, Longbrook Human Resources finally take measures to find the ghost in their machine whilst a front desk reception worker begins her own noticeboard campaign to learn about her mother-in-law Beryl Beaumont's knowledge of the mysterious 'yellow girl'. Falsified employment records and years of back pay force Moss to agree to work for the hospital as their star witness in a pending criminal trial of massive importance.
There is nothing she didn't see on the wards but as the trial looms, Moss disappears knowing her status as a whistleblower will ostracise her from life. In 2000, calling on Demelza's eagerness to help, a fateful meeting with journalist Jamie Briggs selling Moss as Longbrook's now infamous 'missing witness' is arranged. Unaware of a familial link, the intrusive Dem, inadvertently exposes Briggs as Moss's traumatising childhood bully. Briggs, the eldest daughter of Lilith Evans, leaves the media and attempts to partially reconcile with Moss via contact with her fellow hospital worker Mr.Morgan, a Morgue operative.
He reveals the true scandals at play in Longbrook. Demelza was a trainee nurse sacked for gross negligence in 1993 and since 1994 has been identified by HR as a potential scapegoat in the pending criminal trial. Under persuasion from Demelza, Moss finally calls on her Dad's original area of expertise before alcoholism; broadcast engineering.
Assembling her video archive from the 1990s takes time but in 2003, through Dem as messenger, Maurice Evans delivers hundreds of hours of analysed videotapes to solicitor Martin Cullen in a ready to play format on computer and hard-drive. Within moments of viewing Cullen realises the Longbrook scandal is not only bigger than anyone realised, it was documented by an underage cleaner. Connecting the dots and calling on former Videobox presenter Max Torrance, now a profile newsreader, Cullen rallies for answers knowing the case is now out of the spotlight and needs a catalyst to be headlines again.
Dem and Moss talk about the case and Moss brings her own revelation to the table. She understands Maurice isn't her biological father but knows the real reason why he was prepared to edit the tapes; Moss had filmed Mary Florence, his real daughter, dying on the ward as a fifteen year old in 1992. Detailing her experience further, Moss confesses to spiritual experiences on the ward.
Unsettled, Dem cites Martin Cullen and Max Torrance's observations of lighting irregularities in the tapes before Moss insists that Mary has a message for her father. Torrance asks Moss to discuss her personal problems. She explains she frightened her mother as a child by telling her about America, the film industry and how she was a silent movie star in the 1910s.
Torrance explains that the scenario has to be rationalised for people to understand it but accepts Moss and to her delight, addresses her as Mia, the person she remembers being. In person, Torrance explains that in broadcast operations it's rare for him to meet genuine people. Moss passes over two photographs she has of a silent movie actress confirming the likeness..