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.
Episode 1
In 1970s London we meet Karim, the son of an India father and an English mother.
Episode 2
Jamila’s betrothed, Changez, arrives from Bombay but he mainly wants to see Baker Street.
Episode 3
Eva leaves suburbia for the city. Karim becomes an actor and falls in love with Eleanor.
Episode 4
Karim becomes a star and goes with Pyke’s play to New York.
