A traditionally minded Muslim father living in 1970s Salford decides the solution to his troubled youngest son's problems is to reconnect with his roots. He takes the reluctant teenager on a trip to Pakistan, only to have an awkward encounter with his first wife. Comedy sequel to East Is East, with Om Puri, Aqib Khan and Linda Bassett.

Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.