 The film is largely a grand-scale re-working of Poliakoff's earlier stage play "Hitting Town" in that the main plot remains one of brother/sister incest, and the film re-uses some lines from that play in dialogue between the brother and sister characters.Beyond this, the film also covers the chaos (as the film sees it) that was the initial stages of the London Docklands development, the late 1980s recession and attitudes towards AIDS.A parallel thread running through the movie is the rapacious replacement of the classical by the modern, represented visually by old and new buildings.