A company of 40 tells a story which journeys from Jamaica to Britain, through the WW2 to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. In three intricately connected stories ,Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.