A student is torn between the cultural desert of the industrial suburbs that raised him and the privileged halls of the ancient university that promise a future of infinite possibilities. Oxford’s two worlds of Town and Gown are divided, physically and metaphorically, by a bridge. By throwing off the shackles imposed by his disadvantaged background to win a place at Oxford University, Mick Bernard knows crossing Magdalen Bridge threatens friction and upheaval in every aspect of his family; work; play; romance. And that once committed there’s no turning back.