Paper Aeroplane is an against-the-odds love story about EVA – an East European girl who is being trafficked by gangsters and JOHNNY – a Birmingham,UK teenager whose mother has mysteriously disappeared.

Johnny arrives home one day to find that his neighbour – a single mother has succumbed to a heroin overdose and her children are being taken into care. In his own flat there is no sign of his mother.

Over the next few days he is forced to fend for himself whilst trying to keep up appearances. More than slightly concerned his Aunt reassures him that his troubled mother will soon reappear.

One evening outside the block of flats where he lives he sees the gangsters who are holding Eva place some drugs in an old car in the car park. It is a “dead drop” for an order of drugs. Eventually the customer arrives and the drugs are collected in exchange for cash.

Johnny is aware that the gangsters are absent and uses the opportunity to steal the cash. He is unaware that the gangsters have a webcam trained on the car. They soon find him out and give chase. Johnny manages to evade them when a pensioner living on the same floor offers him refuge. Johnny who is a member of the Army cadets is impressed by Wilf – a wiry octogenarian 8th Army veteran.

The gangsters don’t give up however and use strong arm tactics to coerce Johnny’s friend Alan to tell them where he lives. When they finally catch him – they force him to start running drugs for them in order to pay them back the money he has spent.

He soon develops a rapport with Eva who is being pimped around the city into various unsavoury situations. When Eva attempts to flee Johnny tries to stand up for her.

The rest of the story unfolds against the context of a brutal turf war as Johnny and Eva try to extricate themselves, find answers and escape to find love and salvation elsewhere.