Traces three intersecting lives involved in the international drug trade: Jack Lithgow, a British government minister who finds the scourge of heroin striking too close to home; Helen Rosshalde, who embarks on a daring survival strategy after her husbands' arrest; and Fazal, a Pakistani peasant in the employ of a menacing drug lord.

• Bill Paterson
• Lindsay Duncan
• Jamal Shah
• Vincenzo Benestante
• Talat Hussain
• Fritz Müller-Scherz