There are three sides to every story.

Gypo charts the breakdown of a working-class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen (Pauline McLynn) has been married to Paul (Paul McGann) for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence. Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change. Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is on the brink of a breakdown. His biggest fear is change. Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee, awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom - a concept taken for granted by all those around her.

Gypo, told in three revelatory narratives, reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working-class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed.