A Week in December

London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career, a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland, a young lawyer with little work and too much time, a student led astray by Islamist theory, a hack book-reviewer, a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV, and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop.