Colin (Eddie O'Connell) has a talent for photography and is in love with Crepe Suzette (Patsy Kensit) an ambitious and beautiful fashion designer who dumps him after attracting the attention of a powerful older man. In the middle of this, the Notting Hill Race Riots break out.
Colin turns to an advertising executive played by David Bowie who promises to make him into a star photographer.
It's a rock musical with songs by David Bowie, Sade, Ray Davies and The Style Council. The soundtrack won more acclaim than the film itself, except perhaps for the scene with David Bowie dancing on a giant typewriter.
