The Girl in the Cafe (2005)

Someone has to protect the earth’s most vulnerable citizens. If the most powerful men of the western world are not up to the task of ridding the planet of endemic childhood starvation, who can the hollow-eyed innocents look to for hope? Take a glance at The Girl in the Café (2005). A drama with a soul and a conscience, director David Yates’s politically charged romance is a portrait of an affair between an aging factotum of the British diplomatic corps and a waif he meets as if by accident in the weeks before attending a global summit of superpowers. The smitten civil servant invites his young friend along to the G8 in Reykjavik, and one spindly female makes more of a difference than an entire banquet hall full of foreign ministers and presidential delegates.