Adapted from Monica Ali's award-winning, best-selling novel, Brick Lane is the story of a beautiful women who arrives in 1980's London, leaving behind her sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Within the wall of her East London flat and in a loveless marriage to the middle aged Chanu, Nazneen struggles to accept her lot, but she is soon forced to confront life the day that hot headed young Karim comes knocking at the door.