A young man, Stevie, awakes on a wasteland overlooking Bradford, still bleeding from a brutal attack that has left him with severe memory loss. Recent events are a total blank; his more distant memories are a blur. He slowly begins to piece together his identity: his name, his home, his family. At first it appears he returns to his former self but through a series of painful flashbacks and encounters, he comes to learn of the dark and disturbing events that led to his beating. Ashamed to learn of the person he has become – and the dangerous world he became mixed up in – Stevie realises he will have to pay. But at what price?

Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does Katia know that her fascination with him will put her life in danger.

南亚大国印度正掀起一股轰轰烈烈的全球化浪潮。然而在该国最大城市孟买却呈现出了另外一番光景：客流如潮涌、一派繁忙景象的飞机场和周围鳞次栉比的高级饭店的远处掩藏着一个不起眼的贫民区¬¬¬——那儿的人们也同上流社会的精英一样对自己的人生有着诸多设想与规划：泽赫伦妮沙和她相依为命的儿子阿巴杜想要通过回收垃圾赚钱致富乔迁新居；年近五十、身材矮小的苏尼尔想填饱自己的肚子，可以长得能和小偷卡鲁一样人高马大；心比天高的阿莎为盗取当局的反贫困基金颇费思量，而她的女儿文珠则日日苦读，矢志做一只早日飞出鸡窝的金凤凰。但对于生活在底层的老百姓来说，这些脆弱的理想不过是梦幻泡影——全球范围内的经济衰退威胁到了垃圾...