In the summer of 2017, James Hattem wrote a play focusing on how people live when they experience pain and hardship. The play was written and released at a table reading, held in February earlier this year. The table reading was a great success, as was the release of a promotional video, ‘A speech for Soho’. Seeing the potential for film to be distributed and shared, James decided to rewrite the Steal Suffering story as a screenplay.