Downhill

Roddy Berwick is the quintessential golden boy: captain of the school cricket team, heir to a respectable legacy, and a man of unshakeable, if naive, integrity. His world shatters when his friend and roommate, Tim Wakely, gets a local girl pregnant and lacks the courage to face the consequences. Bound by a misguided sense of public school honor, Roddy takes the blame, leading to his immediate expulsion and a brutal disowning by his stern father. This single act of sacrificial silence triggers a relentless social and moral spiral. From the hallowed halls of privilege, Roddy descends into the murky depths of London’s music halls, a disastrous marriage to a manipulative actress, and eventually, the hollow life of a 'dance partner' for hire in Paris. It is a harrowing, visually inventive study of how quickly a man’s status can evaporate when he chooses silence over self-preservation.