'When I was ten, my father went up a tree and never came down.'

So begins a frantic and compelling journey into the inner universe of JJ, a child who we slowly come to realise sees the world in a very different way. An exploration of the instincts and survival mechanisms that kick in if you strip a child of all the emotional supports they depend on to grow and develop normally, Forsaken develops as a journey through the psychological spiral of a ten year old boy's struggle, not merely to survive, but to fulfil his most primal instinct – to reunite with his family. In spite of JJ's ever deteriorating circumstances, the boy never wavers from this mission; if anything the rapidly unravelling exterior world steels his determination to achieve his goal.