The Coward

Question: Whats worse than being in a wheelchair?\r\nAnswer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair.\r\n\r\nAfter a car accident Jarred discovers hell never walk again. Confined to a giant roller-skate, he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, hes forced to live back home with the father he hasnt spoken to in ten years.\r\n\r\nAdd in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like hes an idiot, its a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himself careering out of control?\r\n\r\nAs he tries to piece his life together again, he looks back over his past - the tragedy that blasted his family apart, why he ran away, the damage hes caused himself and others - and starts to wonder whether, maybe, things dont always have to stay broken after all.\r\n\r\nThe Coward is about hurt and forgiveness. Its about how the world treats disabled people. And its about how we write and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives - and try to find a happy ending.