The story begins in the dying embers of Albania’s Communist years - by then, countless thousands of injustices had been inflicted on a population subjugated by Enver Hoxha’s Marxist dictatorship. One such victim is Erjon Koçi.

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Now, in present-day Glasgow, his son Artur Koçi, a librarian from Schöder, has travelled to Scotland to honour his recently-deceased father, and right a wrong 47 years in the making. But during his sojourn, fate has dealt Artur a dangerous hand - he learns that he’s a target in a Kanun, one of the archaic blood feuds that blights the country to this day. He cannot return safely, and he can’t claim asylum. He’s now a man ‘trapped’ in Glasgow, with no status. Effectively, he doesn’t exist!

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Ailsa Salcoats, an earnest, efficient paralegal in her Glasgow law firm’s immigration department, is presently dealing with a domestic life in tatters since her boyfriend left following a miscarriage. Artur presently finds himself as a night-time cleaner in Ailsa's office block.

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When Ailsa & Artur’s lives collide, an unlikely friendship is forged. Moved by his predicament as a jeopardy-ridden tourist who cannot return home, and motivated by her own biological imperative, Ailsa hatches an ingenious but wrong-side-of-legal plan to help Artur stay in the country and get his indefinite residency. Artur's role in this quid-pro-quo is simple... he merely has to get Ailsa pregnant!

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The illicit collaborators become embroiled in the process of artificial conception - Artur is stocked up with syringes and sterile cups, while Ailsa is up to her elbows in ovulation and pregnancy testing kits. Emotions see-saw as Ailsa juggles domestic expediency with professional ethics; while Artur struggles to evade detection as an illegal worker. Despite the cultural divide, the mismatched pair begin to sense there may be more to their alliance than mere procreation... but their budding romance is just one positive pregnancy test away from being over.