Viv, an unemployed university graduate is looking after the house for her paren's and has surrounded he'self with Oxford graduate frien's/lodgers. As the Brixton riots begin to break out on the'streets, four of the inmates are too taken up with their own domestic feuds to notice what is happening in the world outside. Eventually Viv succeeds in getting rid of them but not before the'situation has shown the empty lives of these style-crazed people and their lack of human'sympathy.