Boxer Handsome

Boxing runs in Bobby's blood. His Irish dad was a boxer. So was his Jewish grandfather. Yanked up by their collars at Clapton Bow Boys Club and taught how to box and stay out of trouble. So Bobby knows he shouldn't be messing in street brawls a week before his big fight with Connor 'the Gypsy Boy', an Irish traveller from around the way. They're fighting over Theresa u a traveller girl with Connor's name written all over her. But Bobby's handsome, like his dad; boxer handsome. Behind him stands a family legacy of bad blood, booze and bruises, and the kitchen-sink drama of the council estate on which he lives, that sucks Bobby in and under. And all he really wants is to face his fights and win, with a good girl behind him -- the promise of another, better future. Set against the backdrop of contemporary East-End London, Boxer Handsome is an unsung hymn to tribal boxing history and to an angry and austere Britain, offering up a flawed hero struggling to come good in a world that wants to pull him down. For Bobby, the ring is everywhere and he can't afford to lose.