True North (film)

True North is a 2006 Scottish drama film directed by Steve Hudson and starring Martin Compston, Peter Mullan, Gary Lewis and Steven Robertson as sailors aboard a Scottish fishing boat smuggling Chinese into the United Kingdom.

The Chinese are kept below deck in poor conditions but one, a 12yearold girl named Su Li Angel Li, sneaks off and lives in another part of the boat. She begins to steal food from the kitchen but the slowwitted cook eventually notices that some of his food is missing. Sen insists they cant go home without a good catch as an empty boat would look suspicious and the cargo hold may be searched and the Chinese discovered. The nets come up near empty almost every time, however, and the conditions in the hold are beginning to deteriot rapidly. When one of the Chinese dies, Riley goes to the Skipper and confesses all. The Skipper confronts Sen but soon realises that he was simply doing what was in the ships, and their, best interests. For the first time, the Skipper is forced to acknowledge that hes only making a loss by staying at sea. Broken, he gives the wheel to Sen, who turns for home. Meanwhile, the cook discovers Su Li and comforts her, but does not inform anyone else of her presence on board the ship. The Skipper believes that if they return to Scotland, they will face certain arrest he will lose his license, and the bank will foreclose on the boat. He drowns the Chinese without telling anyone. Sen and Riley then see the nets are full and pull them up. The crew is horrified to find the corpses of the Chinese. The cook attacks the Skipper with a chain and kills him, as he would have no choice but to kill Su Li also.The film then ends with Riley and Su Li sitting at a bus stop in Peterhead, Scotland. Su Li gets on a coach and it drives away. Inside her bag is the large sum of money from the ship. ........

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