The Arab Downstairs

It was one hot Arabian night.

Danny Melton lives in a depressed part of town that is a melting pot of various cultures and creeds. He likes it there because it’s cheap and cheerful, and close to the college where he’s studying. He rents the upstairs of a dilapidated terrace house that leaks when it rains, but he’s happy, not a problem in the world. Well, just one - Jasim, the Arab guy downstairs who has been belligerent and antagonistic ever since he caught Danny talking to his young pregnant wife. When on the night before his big exam, he can’t concentrate to study because of the excessive noise from a party downstairs, celebrating the birth of Jasim’s son, Danny has to pluck up the courage to enter the lion’s den to ask them all to keep the noise down. The reaction to his request is totally unexpected.