Our Girl is a single drama about a young girl, Molly Dawes (Lacey Turner), living in London with her parents, two brothers and three sisters, while her mum is also expecting another baby.
On a drunken night out and about she finds being sick just outside the army recruitment office and notices just what place it is the following day. She is treated badly by her dad who is 'on the sick' after a fall at work and is fed up with her boyfriend Artan, doing what he wants and not treating her right. All the poor girl wants is a bit of respect!
When she notices that it's a recruitment office she gets talking to a sergeant while he's working and he starts telling her about the army and gives her a chance to take the BARB test (British Army Recruit Battery test) that is needed to get onto the training.
When she gets the letter she's been waiting for she can't away soon enough. When herself and many other recruits make it through the physical tests they then arrive at Pirbright for training they are immediately out through their paces to see what they're made off and if they've got what it takes to be in the British Army.
Molly and the other female recruits help each other out to ensure each of them get through without fail, and before they know it they're on their passing out parade being seen for the first time in their uniforms by family and friends, although for Molly its not quite the same as she has no visitors.
She stays strong and fights on through everything that get's thrown at her throughout the film. She gains the respect she wanted at the beginning and turns her life around to become a better person.
In my opinion this was a brilliant drama to show life through training for the army. Personally I feel like I can relate to this quite well as I once wanted to join the army from spending 6 and a half years in the Army Cadet Force and loved it all, hard work included. This drama shows you how tough it can be if you're unaware of what recruits go through. It shows you how important it is to stick together and work as a team to get through.
I'd happily recommend this to anyone just so they can see and understand what some people are going through each and every day, not knowing if they're loved ones will make it through to fight for their country and then make it home again.
