Racial drama centering on a young white advertising executive sharing a London flat with a black lawyer who eventually find bigotry threatening their friendship.

Roddy, a white advertising executive, places an ad in the newspaper for a roommate to share the expenses of his London flat, and Andrew, a black Jamaican lawyer, responds. At first hesitant, the two men discover that they are both Oxford graduates and decide to have a trial period. Andrew moves into the apartment, and his Jamaican girl friend, Caroline, pays him frequent visits. One evening, the two roommates and their girl friends go to a nightclub. Bored with Ethne, his aristocratic partner, Roddy turns his attention to Jane, a pretty white woman surrounded by admiring Negroes, and later escorts her home, where he is intrigued to discover that she lives in a house owned by a Negro man. The following week, Roddy and Andrew plan a trip to Roddy's stately Elizabethan mansion, and Roddy invites Jane. When Roddy's parents protest Andrew being brought to the house, Andrew and Caroline return to the apartment only to be interrupted in their lovemaking by the sudden appearance of the landlady who, in an outpouring of racial hatred, demands that they leave. Hastily leaving a note for Roddy, the couple move back to the black ghetto and decide to return to Jamaica where society accepts them. Several days later, Roddy gives a party, hoping to convince Andrew to stay, and drunkenly declares his desire to marry Jane, even though he has learned that the black man at her house is her stepfather; but Jane now sees Roddy as the weak man he really is. He collapses on the bed and rejects the advances of Marcus, a guest who recognizes Roddy's latent homosexual tendencies. The police arrive and break up the party, leaving Roddy alone and confused.