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They all live or work on the same street in London; some of them know one another, others don't, but almost all of them will end up crossing paths. Roger Yount is a banker from the City that expects an annual bonus large enough to pay for his second home; he already has two cars and he would also like to have two wives. And he'd like the second one to be less extravagant than the official one, who doesn't lift a finger. Before getting what he dreams of, he is left without a job, laden with debt and under the care of his youngest son, because his (still) only wife leaves him temporarily. Ahmed is a Pakistani who has a shop and two brothers, one is a layabout fundamentalist, and the other is hardworking and democratic. When their mother arrives from Pakistan, she is ready to criticise everyone except her insanely religious son There is also Petunia, an old lady who doesn't realise that in there are half a million pounds hidden in her house. And Zbigniew, the Polish construction worker, and Smitty, a scandalous artist whose real name nobody knows, only that he is Petunia's grandson In the meantime, the economic crisis looms over London and the whole world...