Set over one night and one day, Blackout is a 10-minute drama which tells the story of young Grace who lives on a council estate with her mentally ill mother Cathy.
Unable to manage her mother's illness any longer, Grace contacts the psychiatrist to arrange a secret intervention. Through the day, Grace's attempts to keep her mother preoccupied open her up to the world her mother lives in, and she begins to reassess whether sectioning was really the best way to help her.—Serena Chloe Gardner