To cope with the loss of his father, Micah spends time in church lighting candles that are perpetually blown out by the wind. He encounters a stranger who persuades him to reconsider his self-imposed exile, and reconcile with his brother.
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.