Love in a Cold Climate. A story of urban living and rituals of survival - ACE427.3

Off-licence office; manager complaining on telephone to supplier. Nkosi comes for a job; manager says job has gone and interrogates him about his skills; he leaves. Cornelia; night street scenes: song "Brother me, sister I, tell me how we going to get on tonight…" Voices over. Hands playing kora (harp-lute); landscapes; tropical flowers. Woman’s VO reciting "Sunshine. Code word for a craving for something better. The memory of a dream we never really knew… that elusive ‘something better’ that is always somewhere else." Geese and swans on lake. Nkosi and Cornelia walking by the water, meet a friend. Tribal dance; women harvesting; surf boat beaching; steel mill. Song over; VO speaks words: "we could write about the stars, we could write about the seasons, we could write about the evening sun that whispers to the spirit of the bright blue sea… if only there were no people …" Nkosi, Cornelia and friend passing David McFall’s statue of Winston Churchill at Woodford Green. Kwame being thrown out of another house. VO: "Ah, what you doin’ fi here?... what you think happen to you now? …" Song. Kwame getting drunk in bar. Singer. VO "You been goin’ down so quickly in this town. Why? What’s happenin’ to you? … Can’t you hear the voices of your ancestors any more … the whole world is upside down …" A drunken Kwame leaves his car in the street.