Kevin O'Grady goes for a job at the Lillicrap Novelty Company and is the subject of bigotry among the workers - not because he is Irish but because he is a Pakistani with an Irish father. The token black man at the firm does not like Pakistanis and the two Scousers are extremely colour prejudiced but Arthur Blenkinsop,the liberal foreman.takes him on and fixes him up with lodgings with Mrs Barok. He also buys Kevin a pint of Guinness but because it is black it is not well-received.