No-one understands the laconic, downtrodden Umer (Faraz Ayub). The manager at the motorway-skimming burger joint where he works somehow misinterprets his chronic shyness as extroversion, promoting him to the unwanted position of store greeter. His colleagues mistake him, a years-long employee, for a new starter because he’s so unassuming. And his own (white) mother – like all the Caucasian people he interacts with – doesn’t even call him by his name, instead favouring the more Anglo-Saxon-friendly Adam. In line with its despondent-loner lead, the unsettling, atmospheric Sky Peals resists comprehension, skirting multiple Big Ideas without ever landing on an overarching thesis….
