Gordy e Martine viajam em um carro e no caminho dão carona a Brett, um desconhecido que saiu da prisão. Pouco a pouco, Brett começa a confiar nos dois jovens que começam a se apaixonar, enquanto relembra de sua amada esposa.
Parvez é um taxista, emigrante de origem indiana, "cidadão do mundo" que gosta de todas as coisas, das especialidades inglesas à prostituta local, Bettina. Schitz é um homem em busca do prazer, um homem de negócios alemão em visita a Londres, que já incluiu Bettina nos seus planos. Parvez é casado com Minoo, uma mulher sofredora, e tem um filho, Farid, um adolescente à procura de si próprio. O fundamentalismo cruza-se com o hedonismo ocidental na mesa da cozinha de uma família asiática.
Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
