Director Ken Loach, Palme d'Or award winner for his film I, Daniel Blake, reacts during the closing ceremony of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 22, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the state for the first time in his life.
He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie's only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn't know some 300 miles away.