Joyride

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.

• runaway
• motherly love
• on the run
• single mother
• ireland
• stealing car
• british pub
• death of mother
• stolen cars
• hitchhiking
• runaway child
• deadbeat dad
• stolen cash
• joyride
• ferry
• father son conflict
• newborn baby
• breastfeeding
• adult child friendship
• singing child
• runaway woman
• solicitor
• unexpected pregnancy
• absent father
• irish
• rural ireland
• car
• police checkpoint