"Abu Nawas" is a trendy café and popular hangout for artists, communists and gay Iraqi exiles in London, it's close to the Salafist Mosque. When Nasseer, a fanatic religious youth and nephew of poet Taufiq, attacks his uncle's friends he sets into action a course of events that will turn everyone's life upside down.

Taufiq, an old failed writer, Amal, a wife hiding and Muhanad, a clandestine gay IT-specialist all meet at "Abu Nawas", a cosy café and popular hangout for Iraqi exiles in London. Instigated by the preacher of a salafist mosque, the writer's nephew Nasseer, a fanatic religious youth, attacks his uncle's friends and turns everyone's life upside down.