A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future...but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain

Bev Bodger is a married teacher tempted by an old school boyfriend to enjoy a little sex and chocolate in Paris.