Su, a Thai bride, comes to England after the tsunami armed with a book called My Beautiful England, instead she finds herself in Burnley, stuck with an aging husband. Su attempts to fit in but struggles with racial abuse. At a local language centre she meets Samina, who is trapped in an arranged marriage and Lenka, who lives with her daughter in a women's refuge, hiding from her Polish husband. The three women become friends, united in their quest to learn English and acclimatise to life as a foreigner in the UK.