Cricket, for eleven-year-old David Wiseman, is the only source of pleasure in an otherwise colourless childhood. Unfortunately, David isn't very good at the game. In fact, his ineptitude at cricket, more often than not leaves him a laughing stock in the eyes of his school peers.

David's life begins to change when a West Indian family moves in next-door and quickly raise a cricket net in their back garden. Warned by his father that their new neighbours 'just don't fit in', David finds a mentor in the form of the head of the new family, Mr Samuel, who trains him in the ways of cricket. Meanwhile, David's mother, a woman married at the age of seventeen, finds her value system challenged as she slowly begins to acknowledge her own growing lustful desires for the dignified Mr Samuels.

As quickly as David takes to the family, the surrounding community are inflamed by their presence and when the racial tension becomes tangible, David and his Jewish family find themselves caught in the middle of something that could change their lives forever.

'the year's most heart-warming British movie.' - Edinburgh Film Festival