It's Birmingham, England in 1986 and Billy Zero has just walked out the
hospital after trying to kill himself at the age of twenty-three. Amid
ceaseless drinking in seedy nightclubs, backstreet bars, drug-fuelled
parties and long, amphetamine charged nights punctured by his sense of
demented loneliness, Billy Zero is sifting through the pieces of his
broken life, compulsively searching for love and cheap thrills in an
effort to assuage his feelings of alienation. With its frenetic and
chopped-up narrative, 'Black Cradle' backtracks the grotesque personal
life of Billy and his freakshow of bored and bewildered friends - fusing
together the grim omens of his rootless childhood and the brutal events
leading up to his suicide attempt.
