Karim becomes a star and goes with Pyke's play to New York. He has to reflect on his return to Britain.

Eva leaves suburbia for the city. Karim becomes an actor and falls in love with Eleanor. Charlie's career advances.

Jamila's intended husband, Changez, arrives from Bombay, but his passion seems to be in discovering 221b Baker Street.

Karim, the teen son of an Indian father and an English mother, looking for trouble, action and sex, is the hero of this comic-drama set in the South London suburbs of the 1970s.