Nelson Mandela - free! Stone Roses - wow! Kissing the girl of my best friend. Fire, police enquiries and 'No poll tax here! Until now...
Jack and Sandra watch the Berlin Wall tumble, see Nelson Mandela finally walk free, dance with the Stone Roses and argue, ‘is Robin Williams any good in ‘Dead Poets Society?’ It’s 1990 and as things change, everywhere, a few friends decide to stand up against an obscure, little known, new tax that demands everyone pay the same. Rough and ready leaflets, banners and protest meetings pick up unexpected, high levels of support and soon plans are made to protest in London’s Trafalgar Square. Thousands turn up for a carnival of protest, but the day ends in anger and riot. Waves of protest surge through the summer of 1990 and emotions also build between Jack and Sandra – out of site of Jack’s best friend, Pete, and Sandra’s partner, Pete. Oh… With Bailiffs at the door, world cup fever in Italia and non payers packing out the courts, a murderous fire at the local debt recovery office casts doubt and suspicion over the campaign with Jack and Pete at the centre of local controversy. A prime ministers career tumbles and friendship, loyalty and trust is also tested to destruction, then, and twenty years later with bailiffs, once more, at Jack’s door.