From the moment that Amir arrives illegally in England from Pakistan, packed in a vegetable crate, nothing is as he expected. Instead of streets paved with gold, he finds himself holed up in a dismal house in the north of England with seventeen other ′illegals′ (all men), who dare not use the electric light for the fear of discovery, existing in a twilight world of agents and police informers. Based of Abdullah Hussein′s novel "Return Journey," which draws on the real experiences of many immigrants to Britain from the sub-continent in the 1960s, Brothers in Trouble breaks new ground in lifting the veil on the lives of this first generation of immigrants who come to Britain with positive spirits, to find out that the streets were not exactly paved with gold.