What starts as a look at modern-day paranoia around terrorism turns into a sometimes
sinister drama about communication and how well we know our own families in JC Lee's
Luce. Liberal American couple Amy (Mel Giedroyc) and Peter (Nigel Whitmey)
adopted an orphaned seven-year-old boy from an unnamed, war-torn African country.
Many of the kids adopted in the scheme were traumatised and had major behavioural
problems, but Amy and Peter were lucky - Luce (Martins Imhangbe,) now 17, has been a
model son and his school's star pupil. But when one of his teachers, Harriet
(Natasha Gordon,) sets her class an essay that asks them to "think outside the box"
and imagine themselves as a historical figure at a significant moment, she's
disturbed when Luce chooses an obscure 1970s terrorist. She searches his locker and
finds dangerous, illegal fireworks, but as Luce has an otherwise unblemished record
she doesn't inform the police, instead inviting Amy to discuss what she's
discovered.
