My Beautiful Laundrette Screenplay - Hanif Kureishi

'My Beautiful Laundrette' by Hanif Kureishi (Faber & Faber 69-page paperback)

In Thatcher-era London, a clean-limbed young Pakistani man with budding entrepreneurial instincts is encouraged to revamp a dingy laundrette, much to his scholarly, left-wing father's disapproval. When he hires an old schoolyard adversary, they form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, but tensions begin to flare in the local community.