Spike (Colgan) and Heaton (Glenaan) are the unlikeliest pair: two loners who have found each other. Taciturn, competent, unreadable; Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast, his sidekick Spike is manic, child-like, unstopaable; someone we are instinctively afraid for...

When Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton decides to stand by him; an act of astonishing, almost foolhardy loyalty. There begins a chase across a vast northern landscape of moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by police but by a posse of farmers bent on revenge.

As fatigue and hunger set in, Heaton is injured and the roles are reversed. Now Heaton needs Spike's loyalty and as the vigilantes close in Spike is forced to decide whether to stand by his friend or run for the safety of the city...

No ordinary chase film, 'This Is Not A Love Song' is a love story trapped inside the body of a thriller. Written by Simon 'Full Monty' Beaufoy, this groundbreaking film was the first in the world to receive a simultaneous cinema and internet release.