Based on Max Porter’s bestselling novel Shy, Steve is the story of a head teacher facing the impending closure of the reform school where he works, told in parallel with the struggle of one of his students (Jay Lycurgo).

Written by Porter himself, Steve is a film which sensitively depicts a day in the world of a micro community of people either fighting for their own well-being, or for the well-being of those in their care. Despite it's 1990s setting, the story of essential services at breaking point and the ripples of precarity feel painfully contemporary.