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