 Young Jewish lad David s passion is cricket. Unfortunately he s pretty hopeless at it so is delighted that the new next-door neighbours are also cricket lovers - they even put a net up in the garden - and are prepared to coach him. But this is 1950 s London and they are West Indian, so David s parents find themselves under pressure to put an end to their son s friendship. As they themselves are immigrants from wartime Germany who have suffered bigotry in Britain they have difficult choices to make.