Corinne Skinner-Carter

An Iranian exile in London, who is haunted by his past, gets involved in the conflicts of a total stranger and has to see it through until the end, in this mesmerising slow-burn thriller.

Focusing on one family, this film dramatises the tensions between first and second generation West Indians in London. The younger generation see their parents as having rejected their black identity and, unable to get a job, the family's younger son becomes involved in collective black action.

Anita is a young mother struggling to raise two children with the help of her mother Edith, on a rundown estate in London. Anita nurses dreams of becoming a singer but finds opposition from her children's father, Byron.