But for Vlad it’s a challenge he takes wanting to push the band further. It’s a dream that as precious to him as his beloved harmonica the only thing he loves as much as his daughter Maria (Olive Gray). Vlad’s relationship with her has been fractured but is doing his best to reconnect with her and be the father he knows he should have been.

But despite seemingly having beaten drugs his life is still on something of a knife edge with the temptation to find solace in drugs always there and his push towards the precipice when events begin to go awry and his defiance in paying bills and also with the council pressuring him to move out of his two bedroom home where he lives alone – a reviled law that explains the 2015 setting when such a law was enacted. There are good performances here but Slavka Sobin excels in a moody, passionate and conflicted lead performance – likeable but frustrating when he allows events to overwhelm him and the iconic Trainspotting ’Choose Life’ poster becomes an increasingly relevant leitmotif. Surviving Earth is a bit of a vague, beige ambiguous title whose meaning becomes more apparent in what is an often moving drama. related feature : ‘All the Devils Are Here’ – Brit gangster movie with actor Burn Gorman & director Barnaby Roper related feature : Actress Gina Jones talks her lead role in domestic violence film, ‘Trapped’ Here’s the Surviving Earth trailer……