Nominated for five British Independent Film Awards, Joel Hopkins s first feature film is a feel-good road movie with an outsider s sense of place and a sensitive insight into the workings of the human heart. Essentially telling the story of a road trip from New York to Niagara Falls, Hopkins is aided enormously by a cosmopolitan and largely unknown cast. Lead actor Tunde Adebimpe excels as the timid Nigerian pen pusher, whose life is transformed on a meandering odyssey to his wedding day in the company of an eccentric Frenchman (Hippolyte Girardot), a ravishing Spaniard (Natalia Verbeke) and her snooty English fiancé (James Wilby). Recalling Wim Wenders s 1970s road movie trilogy and its dissection of backwoods America, which climaxed with Kings of the Road in 1976, the English-born director has completely avoided the debutant s tendency to self-indulgence and produced a film of rare subtlety and charm.

When shy, straitlaced George meets vivacious, adorable Alicia, he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard, a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.