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Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.

Ricky (Ashley Walters) has been released from a young offender institution where he served time for the illegal possession of a firearm. Determined to go straight, he heads home where his mother and his 12-year-old brother Curtis (Luke Fraser) are waiting for him. However, while on his way home, he and his best buddy Wisdom (Leon Black) get involved in a minor street confrontation which threatens to escalate into a violent neighborhood war. Then Ricky takes home a loaded revolver and hides it in his room which Curtis finds...