Sophie and Max are a thoroughly modern British couple, cosmopolitan and open-minded. They have even constructed their own eco loo, well, it does save thirty litres of water a day. Max is a lawyer, albeit a lawyer who grows his own dope. Then there’s Hana and Ali next door – neighbours, but in every other sense, a world apart. Hana is pregnant, but black eyes are not normally a symptom of pregnancy. What a man does on his own patch is his business – but when war starts raging next door, whose business is that?