A home away from home for troubled teen Maeve

Imagine this: you’ve never had a passport but suddenly you’re on a plane, heading somewhere you’ve never been, with less than 24 hours’ notice and the future wildly uncertain. Then, just when you think it couldn’t get any weirder... one of the country’s boy bands hovers into view.

The boy band was apparently seated on the same plane as Maeve* as she made her way to the UK city that day, aged in her mid-teens, and her new living quarters in a children’s home.

“It’s actually a funny story,” she says. “There was two guards and a social worker and [the band] on the plane behind me. They were doing a gig over there.” She laughs as she confirms she wasn’t a fan of the group. “I thought they were funny. I just couldn’t believe it.”