Stray

Stray

2025•19m•6.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(1)

Ella is a troubled teenage girl living in a residential care home as part of her foster placement. After a year of homelessness and watching her mom struggle, Ella is angry and distrustful of the world around her. When she is expelled because of an outburst, social services cannot find an immediate new placement for her, and Ella has nowhere else to go, posing a problem for Ella's new social worker, Sam.

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EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Eva Birthistle

Eva Birthistle

Sam

Isabelle Connolly

Isabelle Connolly

Ella

Shane Patrick McCormick

Shane

Amber Arkins

Amber Arkins

Megan

Elizabeth Pippa Appelbe

Kitty

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