Britain's 2012 Spouse Immigration Rules set a minimum income threshold of £18,600 for anyone sponsoring a foreign spouse's visa, and director Don McVey follows three couples caught on the wrong side of that line. Alison, a Turkish woman who returned to the UK to care for her sick father, spends three years separated from her husband Omer because the rules bar him from joining her. Gethin, a Welshman, and his Russian wife Elena cannot settle in Wales together because his income falls short of the threshold. Sally and Walter, an American couple together for 22 years, face possible deportation after a house sale drags on for two years and jeopardizes their paperwork. McVey lets each family narrate its own case directly to camera, tracking the practical fallout: lost income, prolonged separation, children growing up with one parent absent. The film stays with the bureaucratic mechanics of the policy rather than the broader immigration debate, showing how a single income figure reshapes each household's daily life.