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Lucy: a 42-year-old white woman, separated, with two children and an ex-husband in the process of detoxification from various addictions, a literature teacher and head of a department at a school in a multi-ethnic neighborhood, educated and with sophisticated friends. Joseph: black man, 22 years old, son of a broken marriage: the mother a nurse in a public hospital and the father an unemployed construction worker; moonlighting -a butcher shop assistant, youth soccer coach, assistant at a sports center- and with the dream of making a career as a DJ. To begin with, two very different people, whose destinies would be unlikely to cross. But they cross paths, and they start a loving relationship that must confront all prejudices -because of race, because of the years that separate them, because of the different cultural environments- and especially their own fears. The backdrop is the tense Brexit referendum campaign, which is not exactly helping to sow harmony among the British. And as secondary actors appear a white writer with erection problems; a white friend obsessed with sex, or rather with fantasizing about sex; a seductive, ambitious black girl who sings like angels; another black girl who loves Thomas Hardy; a very geek boy who knows everything about black music...