LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH
Young businessman temporarily reduced to poverty over a long weekend, becomes dependent on a homeless girl trying to go straight.
After closing a big deal, young London businessman Charlie Grant puts his credit cards, and his briefcase in the trunk of his car. In celebration he gets wildly drunk. In the morning, he wakes up on a girl's sofa, then discovers that his car has been towed away to the city pound.
At the pound, now cash less, Charlie pleads to get his credit cards from the car. He is refused and the shutter comes down until the bank holiday is over. Angry, he calls Caroline, his wealthy fiancée in London. As she answers, he is mugged in the street by two addicts who steal his cell phone. Charlie tries to panhandle fifty pence to call Caroline again, but a street girl, Gina, accuses him of stealing her pitch. They argue. Gina, seeing he is hurt, finally takes pity on him and lets him use her phone card. He reaches Caroline's answer phone. Gina seeing that Charlie is hungry takes him to the soup kitchen. She gets him a coat and a sleeping bag to get though the weekend. Charlie is ungrateful. Gina departs to rescue her street friend Lucy from corrupt cop Paterson who later murders her. Thereafter Gina turns to Charlie to help her seek justice.
Helen Fortuno, and Italian living in London, has not heard from her brother Frank for two years. She receives a cryptic postcard from him with enough information for her to track him down to a Buddhist retreat in Scotland. Along for the ride is London girl Sylvia who is using Helen’s search for her brother as her chance to leave her psycho husband Gordon.
Arriving at the monastery, they are told by a monk that Frank, failing to fit in, has moved on with tantric student Fiona. At Fiona’s cottage they find Fiona has been abandoned by Frank and has a baby daughter by him. Frank has gone to live on the coast but when Helen confronts Frank’s ex-beach buddy Joe, she realizes that Frank doesn’t want to be found. Meanwhile Sylvia takes a fancy to kilted barman Davie and invites him along. Helen feels Davie is slowing them down and provokes him into parting with them. The two women, now followed by a mysterious Man in Black, continue their search for Frank and encounter the Jeweler, Sunshine and Sophie, who guide Helen to the Drummer Girl, a forger who has given Frank a new identity – Sid Arthur.
When the Drummer Girl is murdered, Sylvia realizes they are involved in something bigger than just looking for Helen’s brother.
