London in the early 1990s; supposedly the New Age 'Caring Nineties'. But the streets, are not paved with gold, but covered with homeless living in sleeping-bags and cardboard boxes, and often littered with a far more dangerous form of flotsam. For, Angel, the city divides into several layers of underworld and sub-cultures: callous crime and corruption, the growing drug culture and the seedier side of the gay scene, the young and homeless. But most serious of all is that Angel is down on his luck and flat broke. The situation is critical. So critical, he might even have to get a job...