London, 1950. With the Blitz over and London still rebuilding after the war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England?s call for help. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush, he?s taken a tiny room in south London lodgings, and has fallen in love with the girl next door. Touring Soho?s music halls by night, pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home - and it?s alive with possibility. Until...