After “Trainspotting” and “28 Days Later”, Danny Boyle tries a modern fairy tale, in which two brothers find a bag of cash by the railway line days before Britain gives up the pound. The catch is that the younger one sees saints and wants to hand the lot to the poor, and he isn’t joking.
Nine-year-old Damian, who has not long lost his mother, has built himself a cardboard den beside the railway embankment, and one day a bag full of banknotes lands on top of it. His older brother Anthony wants to spend it straight away, while Damian, after checking with the saints, means to give it to the poor. And the clock is ticking: in a few days Britain switches to the euro, and the pounds will be worth no more than scrap paper.
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