Set in May 1997 at the time of the New Labour election victory, 'Eighteen Long Years' is an independently produced and funded short film about love, aspiration and greed in post Thatcher Britain.

Dominic is a young lad from Newcastle who has headed south looking for work. He lives with his girlfriend, Debbie in Milton Keynes. They look after Granddad, but long for a place of their own.

We feel their nervous excitement as Dominic prepares for the biggest day of his life...an interview, which if successful will give them what they have always wanted.

But what will happen to Granddad? Increasingly frail, he shows signs of losing his faculties and we wonder who is to care for him as his health deteriorates?

Although essentially a love story, Eighteen Long Years offers an engaging and emotional critique of the Tory party's 18 years of power and Monetarist ideology. We see what happens when families and communities are ripped apart as a new generation of Thatcher's children grows up.

The film is co-written and directed by an exiled Geordie who grew up on
Tyneside in the 1980s and saw first hand the devastating effect of Tory economic policy, and the subsequent explosion of consumer capitalism, endorsed by 'New' Labour.