Based on Monica Ali's best-seller, Brick Lane has been warmly received by critics and audiences alike. Nazneen's life is changed forever when she is forced into an arranged marriage and must leave her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London's East End. In this grim new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence and her duty to her obnoxious husband. But then Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control. Set in multicultural Britain, this story of love and the human spirit is hard to miss.