Age: 70
female
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).
As an aging orphanage in rural England prepares to close its doors, only two teenagers remain behind: Alfie, who has lived in the system since he was three and was once returned by an adoptive family, and Caitlin, who arrived years later but never quite managed to be chosen over younger children. With most of the building already emptied and packed away, the vast orphanage grows quieter each day, leaving the two to wander through echoing corridors filled with fading memories of the children who once lived there. As staff prepare for the final closure and a couple expresses interest in adopting Caitlin, the two teenagers spend their last days exploring forgotten rooms, sharing fears about the future, and confronting the possibility that their paths may soon separate. In the stillness of the nearly abandoned home that shaped them, Alfie and Caitlin form a fragile bond built on companionship, uncertainty, and the quiet hope that even if they leave alone, they will not leave without having mattered to someone.
