Take a Good Look

Mary, a child with impaired sight, decides to demonstrate her independence to an over-protective family by making an unsupervised visit to the corner shop, where she is promptly kidnapped by a pair of armed robbers. Her subsequent adventures, isolated and threatened in a squalid flat, will make ugly and very uneasy reading for many children. However, her courage and resourcefulness provide a reassuring counterpoise to the terrors of the abduction, and ultimately emphasise the important message that she is indeed 'differently abled'.