Betsy & Leonard

A widower, a runaway, and the small green hours between them.

The kind of love story that begins by accident and ends on purpose.

Leonard is seventy-eight, recently widowed, and has decided — with the quiet certainty of a man who has made his bed — to spend his remaining months alone on the Cornish coast. Betsy is fourteen, has run away from a foster placement in Truro, and chooses the wrong bus on the wrong morning.

Across four days, in a falling-down farmhouse on the cliffs at Trevose, the two of them work out — with very little dialogue and a lot of cooking — what it is they each need from someone who isn't going to be there for long. Betsy & Leonard is a feature about temporary kindness, and the bruises it leaves.

Shot over six weeks in Cornwall in autumn 2023 on the Alexa Mini LF and finished in Dolby Vision.