Addressing why the British justice system fails so many young black defendants, You Don't Know Me is adapted from Imran Mahmood's best-selling novel by screenwriter Tom Edge (Vigil).
Wanting to tell his own story, Hero (Adewunmi) fires his lawyer and, in delivering his closing speech in court, takes us back to the sequence of events that put a law-abiding car salesman in the dock for murder .
Hero believes that if he can be better understood, he will be treated more fairly. As novelist Imran Mahmood points out, at the heart of the story is the challenge to better understand our neighbors so that we can better see how society fails some people.
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