Kieren thinks a plan to beg and then invest the money in umbrellas will get him off the streets, but he faces drugs, violence and security, and is turned away from shelters for not being registered homeless.

Trust fund kid Hanif, used to trading commodities on the stock market, spends three nights sleeping rough in Camden, where he meets George, a former academic who helps to change his views on the homeless.

Far from her designer brands and world trips, Rukaya soon feels vulnerable on the streets when a group of men intimidate her and a fellow homeless woman. Begging brings only 20p, so the second night is spent in a shelter, where she meets a woman whose alcoholism cost her her family.