Nick and Louie are two degenerates who assault a young woman in her Greenwich Village apartment. The woman's boyfriend, Paul, embarks on a quest to find and get revenge against the two thugs which leads him to the seedy underbelly of New York's red light district from a strip club to a local brothel where Paul meets and has sexual encounters with a few women to learn the identity of the two 'girl grabbers' leading to a drug deal between the two thugs and a powerful gangster.

Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.