Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

Can love overcome fear? Can perseverance overcome ignorance and racism? What does it cost to belong? Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle challenges our collective understanding of what it means to be part of the Afro-Caribbean community in modern-day Britain.

Episode One: Eunice (1949)

It’s 1949, and a year after arriving on the Empire Windrush, Eunice Daley finds herself moving into a room in her uncle’s house, her belongings crammed into cardboard boxes.

The year has not been easy, her aspirations and confidence battered by the reality of employment and living conditions in London for West Indians like herself. She dare not tell her family back home about her new existence. However, a surprise relationship with an Englishman that promised so much has had the greatest influence on her life so far, and forces her to reassess her image and expectations of the ‘mother country’.

Danielle Vitalis (Attack The Block, Youngers, Afro Punk Girl) plays Eunice, pictured.

Written by Carmen Harris (EastEnders, The Crouches, Family Affairs) and directed by Destiny Ekaragha (Silent Witness, Gone Too Far).

Publicity contact: CR3