There can't be many black sons in Brixton as innocent as Benjamin Ignatius Samuel Jones. He arrives in this throbbing immigrant area of London fresh from his village in Guyana, where he was brought up by his strictly religious Granny.

Within a few hours of his arrival Ben has been humiliated by officialdom, robbed of his money by a street urchin and left desolate by his sad discovery that the only address he has in London turns out to be a demolished house. Ironically he is befriended by the very couple of amiable tricksters who robbed him of the few pounds left from the sale of his Granny’s farm.

Ben happily takes on their offer of a friendly partnership. He will earn the money and cook the food, Dave will show him how to enjoy it. He takes Ben to Soho to give him his first taste of sex and arranges a trip to the English seaside where the cold climate is compensated for by the nubile warmth of Miss Saffra, an ambitious miss determined to escape from the ghetto.

Ben’s final education comes when he discovers that Saffra has no real love for him – and that Dave and Devon were the thieves who stole his money. When Dave tries to sweet-talk Ben into lending him more money Ben refuses and lets the swindler swindle himself. Innocence wins. The country boy has had the best teachers...

Features an amazing soul-reggae score including Jimmy Helm, Johnny Nash, Shirley & Co, Billy Paul, Aretha Franklin, The Cimarons, Gladys Knight, The Drifters and Three Degrees.