BBC - Asian Network - Silver Street Synopsis

Friday 25th August 2006

Rozena tells Sameer she was attacked and nearly raped at the allotments. He's stunned and Rita apologises for not knowing. Rozena's angry but Sameer stops her when she goes into the details and she shouts at them both to get out. Rita advises him to talk to her.

Rozena accuses Sameer of humiliating her and she makes him listen. She talks about the past when there were attacks on their shops and their family was being threatened, especially Imran. There were rumours someone was going to go after him so needed to speak to Mickey. He went to school with her, he was the one.

Mickey asks for cigarettes and Rozena serves him. Mickey flirts with her. Rozena asks to meet up with him later at the allotments, she needs to talk to him and gives him the cigarettes for free. Sameer listens on as he drinks a whiskey. She used to like going there for a sneaky cigarette. She could remind Mickey that they were friends once and calm him down.

When she meets Mickey, he's drunk but is glad his friends aren't there. He says that Imran has a big mouth but Rozena explains he doesn't want trouble and that's why she's there. She begs him to leave Imran alone but he says she'll have to convince him with a kiss, cuddle and more and moves closer to her. She tries to break away but he grabs her and presses her against the wall tearing at her clothes whilst she cries and begs him to leave her alone.

When he pulled the knife, she thought she'd be raped and left for dead. She tells Sameer that he'd be pleased that Mickey didn't do it. She remembers being bruised the next day, he hurt her. Then she saw Imran, he saved her and sometimes she wished he hadn't. She starts crying and says Imran killed him, Mickey turned the knife on him and he was just defending her, since then, he's never been the same. Sameer says its not her fault but she blames herself, his wife is a liar and his brother-in-law a murderer.

Episode written by Saman Shad