It's Not Where You Start...

How do you break the cycle of a life you didn’t choose?

‘It’s Not Where You Start...’ is a deeply human story that follows Scott, a man who spent his childhood coming in and out of the care system and now finds himself as a foster carer, standing at the crossroads of past and future.

Scott takes the audience on a highly personal journey as he welcomes foster children into his home, old wounds resurface, memories intertwine with the present, and the weight of his own childhood echoes through the walls.

Weaving animations projected around him like a live comic book, bring Scott’s inner world to life — his memories flicker and shift, his past and present collide, and the invisible scars of the system become vividly real. These animations don’t just illustrate his journey; they reveal the unspoken, the moments too difficult to say out loud, the ghosts of former homes and the fragments of belonging. Scott is both writing the book of his life and stepping right back into this ‘graphic novel’ of his childhood.

At a time when the care system is under scrutiny and thousands of children face uncertain futures, this story has never been more urgent. We seek to challenge perceptions, amplify voices too often unheard, and explore what it truly means to create a home.

Can Scott be the person he needed when he was younger?

And what happens when love, resilience, and trauma collide?