Set between 1950s Barbados and 2010s London, Smallie follows three generations of a Bajan-British family affected by the Windrush scandal. The story follows Lucinda Brown, who leaves Barbados for London in 1956 in search of her past love, Clarence Braithwaite, a jazz musician who left the island to join the British Army. When she arrives in London, Lucinda finds Clarence aged by London and his years at war. Sixty years later, Lucinda receives a letter threatening to deport her and it’s up to her family to prove her legal arrival, and to do that they must find a man their mother once loved, known only by the name of Raldo.