uuDavid Gow’s Cherry Docs is a seminal work on the subject of racism. It is an unblinking examination of hatred, the explosive effect it has on our society, and the hurdles that confront us as we set about eradicating it. The plot has a visceral impact.
A Jewish legal aid lawyer, Danny Dunkleman, has been assigned to defend a neo-Nazi Skinhead, Mike Downey, who has been accused of the heinous racially motivated murder of a South Asian immigrant.

The characters pay a high price for their actions, Danny is forced to analyse the limits of his own liberalism, and the demons underlying it, while Mike is challenged to set aside his own prejudices to accept the help he knows he needs to save himself. The slender thread that holds out for the promise of true forgiveness heightens their contentious interactions. Cherry Docs is mythic, almost ‘Greek Tragic’ as it takes the audience into the intense and fiery relationship that develops between these two men as they explore their emotional and intellectual differences.