Set on the eve of the Thatcher victory, this revival of Keeffe's classic returns to London in the aftermath of the general election of 2010. What's changed?
The sus laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion.
Election night 1979. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win. A black man is picked up. He is incensed, believing that he'll be fodder for an incoming government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles.
Sus is a powerful cry against the still-current threat of institutional racism. Keeffe pulls no punches with his depiction of a corrupt world which looks all too familiar today.
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