Second Coming

Director: Debbie Tucker Green
105 mins Film4 Archive

Starring Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba, BAFTA award-winning director and playwright Debbie Tucker Green's bold feature debut Second Coming asks a massive 'what if?' question.

Set in present day London, Jackie (Nadine Marshall) is pregnant and knows it’s not her husband’s (Idris Elba). She says she hasn’t slept with anybody else, now she doesn’t know if she is losing her mind. Communication, trust and intimacy are at the heart of this warm, fearless family drama as Jackie struggles to explain news of her pregnancy. Over the course of a year the film follows Jackie, husband Mark and their 11 year old son JJ (Kai Francis Lewis) as this ordinary family struggles for answers as accusations start to fly. Debbie Tucker Green’s extraordinary film deftly plays with the notion of an Immaculate Conception in London today.