A Man Who Delivers
A cocaine dealer working the streets of London agrees to tell his story on the condition that he never appears on camera, since doing so would be an admission of a crime still in progress. The film builds its portrait of his day, the deliveries, the risk calculations, the money, entirely around that absence, using audio and staged reenactment rather than his face. Interviews with drug policy experts, addiction workers, and police officers surround his account, sometimes backing up his version of how the trade functions and sometimes contradicting it. Archival news footage on drug enforcement is cut alongside material shot on location in London, tracking the neighborhoods and routes where this kind of dealing actually happens. The film does not moralize about the dealer so much as let his own explanation of why he does the work sit next to the law enforcement view of the damage it causes, leaving the two accounts to disagree in the open rather than resolving them for the viewer.