Cockney safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence for refusing to snitch. Eager to collect his reward from suave, psychotic mob boss Mr Fontaine, Dom heads to southern France with his only friend and accomplice Dickie. Dom is a drug fuelled, sex obsessed, self-regarding, over compensating sociopath…all good, but find out more...
Alex is devoted to his mother, a firm believer in the Marxist reality that is East Germany. Awakening from an eight month coma brought on by a heart attack, a lot has changed since Alex's mum last viewed the world; the Berlin wall has fallen and Germany is once again one. Warned by the doctors that any great shocks could be fatal, Alex becomes determined that his mother, even if it's within the confines of her own four walls, will continue to observe a communist society unchanged. All these s find out more...