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Four convicted murderers - Thaw, Goose, Dyke and Clay - agree to take part in a drug trial in return for their freedom. Each of them, who all protest their innocence, must take a single pill. Soon, Thaw falls desperately ill and dies confessing his true guilt. Dyke dies a few hours later. Goose and Clay remain, and Goose reveals himself as the control specimen. Then Clay discovers that the pill contains a genetically modified worm that feeds on human guilt. Clay protests his innocence, but his only chance of escape is to kill Goose. Then the worm takes over.

Wives are doing it for themselves in this comedy drama about two women trapped by marriage to a Nigerian chief. Moji dreams of being a window dresser but is thwarted by her mundane Peckham life and foolish husband. And her world is turned upside down by the arrival of his second wife from Nigeria, who has come to join them in their one-bedroom flat. Her presence forces Moji to reassess her life and she tries to get a job designing a charity shop window. But when the husband cuckolds both women with a third, they form a surprising friendship which allows both women to be free and follow their dreams. After a public showdown at the chieftancy party, their future is transformed, and so is the charity shop window.

Steve's fathers'-rights rooftop protest goes tragically wrong when he falls off the roof. But as his distraught girlfriend cradles his broken body, Steve's costume - angel wings - lends him a life of its own. While his girlfriend maintains a hospital vigil, angel Steve - now invisible - visits his estranged daughter Kiera. To his delight she can see him, and they strike up a friendship in the shadow of Steve's ex-wife. But soon his behaviour is raising suspicion. At the hospital it becomes clear why he was denied access to Kiera, and even now his violent secret prevents his final redemption.

A gang of happy-slapping teens, who hang out at the Tasty Chicken, challenge each other to steal a better phone. Lethal - the gang leader - viciously knocks a woman off her bike, filmed by Danjah, and then demands to see the clip. But Danjah thinks Lethal went too far, and refuses. Taking his refusal as a challenge to his authority, Lethal attacks Danjah and steals his phone. Danjah plots revenge, striking a deal with rival gang leader Solid to ambush Lethal. But things go too far again, and Danjah is forced into decisive action.

In the middle of the night in a motorway service station in the middle of nowhere, a nondescript group are going about their business. New contract cleaner Danny and shop assistant Dawn speculate about what everyone else is doing there. A Rolls Royce pulls up and Councillor Reg Merrion strides out for a full-English. As he takes his seat, a nervous man begs him to reconsider a bribe he refused from a building contractor. Merrion refuses, setting in train a sequence of events that links together all the lonely people in the service station as one efficient killing machine.

An animator becomes one of his characters, in a dark, part-animated thriller. Mondo is a talented animator steeped in a world of violent animation. His greatest success is remorseless assassin Jack Savage. But his boss Vicky - with whom he once had a fling - wants to cancel Jack and for Mondo to create animation that will appeal to a wider audience. But every time he tries to create a new character, it turns into something nasty. So Mondo visits Henry Field, a big name in feature animation, and his world warps into part-animation as he imagines that Field is offering Jack Savage a final contract: to kill Vicky. Mondo - fast becoming Jack Savage in his head - sets off to the studio to find Vicky.

Romantic drama about love, loss and liberation, as a shy teenager falls for her mother's toy boy. Sixteen-year-old Carmel lives and works in the family B&B. When her dad dies and her mum goes off without her to Barbados, Carmel thinks things couldn't be worse. Then in walks 19-year-old scuba diver Lenos, her mother's holiday romance. Carmel is furious and embarrassed, and vows to get him out. Her initial attempts to discredit him backfire, so she decides to honey trap him. But she didn't plan on being won over by his stories of diving and adventure.

Surreal black comedy about a man who learns he has everything to live for, just when he's paid a company to kill him. When thirty-something Robin is dumped by his girlfriend, he answers an advert for a company called Paradise Adventures offering `the journey of a lifetime', which is in fact a synonym for assisted suicide. A glamorous sales executive turns up at his door with a briefcase full of deadly instruments, and Robin unwittingly signs the contract. He begins to suspect her passive-aggressive motives when the `second thoughts questionnaire' proves bogus. But when he tries to terminate the agreement, Robin finds himself fighting for his life as he refuses to be a good customer and go quietly.