Brits In Trouble

The way most Britons come into contact with the Foreign Office is when they get into trouble overseas. This film follows three diplomats as they try to aid Brits who unexpectedly find themselves in serious trouble on the other side of the world. Ten young backpackers are thrown into a squalid, overcrowded jail in Cambodia facing pornography charges they all deny; an elderly couple haven’t been heard from since their house was destroyed by the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the Caribbean; and a young girl in Iraq, about to be forced into marrying her first cousin, wants to escape back to the UK. In this final episode we meet Sophie Lott, a former probation officer who used to work with perpetrators of honour-based violence in east London. Now at the Foreign Office’s specialist Forced Marriage Unit, she works to help victims. Her latest case involves a 17 year-old girl who was orphaned in Britain and sent to live with relatives in Iraq. As the girl approaches her 18th birthday, Sophie has discovered that her family in Baghdad will kill her if she doesn’t agree to marry. Sophie works with the consul at the British Embassy in Baghdad to try to rescue the girl before she turns 18. Gary Fisher leads the Asia Casework team in London, working with British embassies on the most complicated death, hospitalisation and detention cases all over the continent. When news breaks that ten foreigners have been arrested and imprisoned in Cambodia for ‘pornographic dancing’, Gary is charged by the Minister of State for Asia to work out what’s happened and how they can help the prisoners, all without upsetting the UK’s relationship with the Cambodian government. Lastly we meet Clare Gozdawa, who normally works as a political officer on the Ukraine desk in Whitehall, but also volunteers for the Foreign Office’s rapid deployment team. When Hurricane Irma cuts its destructive path across the Caribbean, Clare is sent to the British Virgin Islands on round-th