A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

Nia, a young black woman, is raised in the countryside by her white Grandmother. When she suddenly passes away, Nia struggles with her identity and where she came from. Focusing on finding her birth mother, she wonders if their relationship can be rekindled.

Tod and Jenny Slaughter accidentally killed someone. To cover it up, they kill again. And again. And again. Eventually, they realize they'll have to wipe out the entire village if they're to get away with it.

An undertaker's secret admiration for the deceased is interrupted by a family quarrel that erupts in the final few minutes at an Irish wake.