Pressure deals with first generation Afro-Caribbeans in Britain, in the story of a British-born youth named Tony, who leaves school in search of a job and is faced with a crisis of identity. Unable to find work, Tony is pressured not only by the restrictions and degradations of a racist society which refuses to accept him as British, but by the demands of his own family: his Trinidadian-born parents want him to be "respectable" (i.e. British), his brother challenges him to be political (i.e. black). Growing increasingly estranged from his white friends who do manage to find jobs, Tony nevertheless finds options within the black culture equally inapplicable to his predicament. Filmed entirely on location around London, and co-written by Ové and novelist Samuel Selvon, Pressure is an honest and vivid portrayal of the lives of young blacks today. The narrative combines social realism with psychological exploration (particularly in some controversial fantasy sequences).