A Clean Start follows Cass as she shares the daily reality of housing insecurity through intimate self-filmed diaries from life in her car and her connection with Orange Sky. Her footage brings audiences into the small, often unseen routines of getting through each day: finding privacy, holding onto routine, managing uncertainty and making space for humour when stability feels out of reach.
Alongside Orange Sky’s mobile laundry, shower and conversation services, the film observes how practical care can create space for trust, hope and connection. The orange chairs become a quiet meeting place, where washing, waiting and conversation offer a pause in the day and room for people to meet each other without judgement.
Centred on Cass’s own voice, A Clean Start invites audiences to look beyond assumptions about homelessness and understand how quickly housing security can be disrupted by illness, rising costs, job loss and fragile support systems.
The film encourages respectful language, stronger community support and practical action alongside people experiencing homelessness and hardship. At its heart, A Clean Start is about empowerment, care, agency, impact and the power of being seen.
