Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor

A gang war dooms the lifelong bond of south London friends in this acclaimed crime drama that features its writer-director as a rapping Greek chorus.

Melvin, a British author in America, goes home to London for Christmas with his fiancée Lisa. She meets his eccentric family and their relationship is tested as she discovers his old world.

As her freedom is threatened, Isio, a Nigerian migrant freshly placed at a UK asylum removal centre, searches for the will to battle the system and finds a kindred spirit who might help her through. Freedom is elusive, but love is...