A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.

In the dead of night, a restless young woman trawls the city streets. Accompanied by the sounds of Capital Radio's late-night talk show, she encounters the dark, unusual and plain seedy underside of after-hours London. Dawnbreakers is a brilliant snapshot of the capital in 1975, featuring an oddball cast of partygoers and night owls, including A Clockwork Orange's Carol Drinkwater.

Mr. Selkie is a seal who comes ashore in the shape of a man during full moon. He helps some children in an anti-pollution campaign.