Synopsis
The Boy At The Back Of The Class is an adventure-filled drama about friendship, family, and the refugee crisis. It’s the story of nine-and-three-quarter year-old ALEXA and her determination to make her new friend, AHMET (a Syrian refugee), feel welcome and reunite him with his family. It’s a story of grief and loss, displacement and belonging, a celebration of courage and difference, a tale of
kindness that proves just how far little things really can go.
When we first meet ALEXA, it’s the end of the summer holidays and, unlike lots of kids, she’s itching for the new term to begin. Having caught us up on life at home in her “penthouse” (the top floor flat of the council estate she lives in with her mum, NUR), her endless bafflement at how confusing grown-ups can be (like when they say “don’t break your promises,” promise to check-in after her dad died, but then disappear) and a lifetime’s obsession with Tintin (as well as her dream to become a reporter, solve mysteries, and fight baddies herself one day), it’s back to school she goes for the first day of term. There’s the old and familiar (her best friends, JOSIE, MICHAEL and TOM, as well as school bully, BRENDAN) and then there’s their new teacher, MRS KHAN – but it’s on the third Tuesday after school re-starts that the real adventure begins...