[1] The film consists of several segments directed by numerous directors and stars Juliet Stevenson, Poppy Miller, Imogen Stubbs, Ivanno Jeremiah, Ricky Nixon and Bruce Payne.

The film focuses on female empowerment[2] 'London Unplugged,' centres around an interlinking device of a real-life female athlete, Yourlance Richards, who runs from Stratford in East London all the way to Kew Gardens in West London, visiting many of the locations which feature in the individual segments, which are as follows: The final segment is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's short story "Kew Gardens".

[citation needed] Ed Potton, who reviewed the film for The Times, awarded it 4 out of 5 stars and stated of the segments that, "when they're good, though, they're really good", noting "Kew Gardens" and "Pictures" as especially distinctive, while "Shopping" "has a moving meeting between a young man and surprisingly reflective assistant in a Soho sex shop" adding that "taken as a whole this is a depiction of the capital that's harsh and humane, familiar and strange.

David Parkinson, of the Radio Times, commented "this has an energy that recalls the French New Wave gem, Paris Vu par... (1965), as the largely neophyte film-makers are prepared to take chances in exploring themes like gender, immigration, alienation, isolation and communication" in a 3-star review.

[10] Nikki Baughan, writing in The List, added: "yet to Cohen belongs the film's greatest strength: an interlinking interview with a real-life female athlete, an immigrant herself, whose epic run from east to west links these stories together.