在这部县界剧情片中,影片根据导演布莱克周遭的真实故事改编，此前曾改编为一部同名短片。影片描绘曼德薇饰演的年轻母亲，努力拯救她14岁的儿子，使其脱离全国性的毒品销售企业。迪金森则饰演一个专门利用脆弱少年，并将他们带到英国县界的帮派招募人员。
The term 'county lines' describes the practice of using children to traffic drugs from cities to coastal towns and rural areas, an under-reported fact of modern British life. Inspired by the stories he heard while mentoring kids at an East London pupil referral unit, writer-director Henry Blake's powerful feature debut boasts a compelling central performance by Conrad Khan as 14-year-old Tyler, whose mum Toni (Ashley Madekwe) is struggling to provide for him and his sister. Excluded from school, Tyler becomes a train-bound narcotics courier for local criminal Simon, played with a calm menace by Harris Dickinson. County Lines (2019) depicts the ensuing cycle of debt, deceit and violent exploitation with a quiet stylistic confidence that's all the more haunting for being so rigorously unsentimental.
