ON PAR, written by Paul G Andrews and Beth Kates, is about the life of  Luke and Rina, punctuated by episodes of violence in which they are forced to be protagonists, despite themselves.

The story takes place in London and navigates three worlds: the rich one, the suburbs one, and the immigrants one. The three realities collide, mix, overlap, feed one another, irremediably. In the background, or perhaps as a real protagonist, the relationship between the two young guys, their dreams, their passion for music, and the excruciating and prejudicial pain of being orphans.

The young protagonists act as teenagers but also as adults, certainly showing that they have come to terms with their own destiny much more than the real adults of the story did, who instead appear fragile, wrong, broken. In them is contained the hope of a generation that dreams, that continues to struggle, and that despite being socially victim of the generation that preceded them, knows how to roll up their sleeves and fight to protect their sense of justice. Too bad that, unfortunately, it is far from easy. 

In the background, there is also a grey London, more than usual, which covers the mistakes of adults. A London that doesn't want to get involved in their crimes, their atrocities, their mistakes, and lack of responsibility. She actually takes part in their sins, offering them her alleys, her sidewalks, her justice ministers.

The pace of the script is fast, also thanks to the use of many flashbacks that make the narrative structure rich and never boring. The dialogues are never obvious, and where perhaps they could slip into seen and revised plot tricks, they are saved by denouncing non-original cinematographic elements through the characters themselves, calming the conscience of the most attentive users.

The characters are coherent, very well written. They almost look familiar. You would like to see them come to life and you can only imagine them being played by excellent actors to do justice to the exhaustive writing.

A story that deserves to be told also visually, and that we hope to see come to life soon.