Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.

• Naveen Andrews
• Brenda Blethyn
• Harish Patel
• Jemma Redgrave
• Roshan Seth
• Steven Mackintosh
• Susan Fleetwood
• David Bamber