奎妮·詹金斯是一名25岁的牙买加裔英国女性，生活在伦敦南部，她跨越了两种文化，却完全没有融入其中。在与长期交往的男友汤姆分手后，奎妮在所有错误的地方寻求安慰，并开始意识到她必须面对过去，才能重新开始。

　　Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in South London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither.  After a messy break up from her long-term boyfriend Tom, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places, and begins to realise she has to face the past head on, before she can re-build.