In 1930s Germany, a woman puts on her dead husband's trousers and never takes them off. As the world around her changes, she endures war and dictatorship, hunger and humiliation – always fighting to stay alive.

Set in a city that never sleeps, Night City follows three people pushed to their limits as they try to survive. Based on real experiences within the gig economy, it explores what it means to build a life in a world of insecure work; an ode to London and its invisible workforce. Told through the interwoven stories of a driver, a care worker and a waitress, the play captures a world of late-night rides and invisible labour. Jack chases money behind the wheel, Tamara tries to hold onto compassion in a care system under pressure and Riva arrives in London hoping to start again, only to find that the life she imagined is harder to build than she expected.

Years after she walked out on her family, Helen has returned home after a war fought in her name. Her husband celebrates, her childhood friend Cee does not. Over the course of this first fragile night of peace time, wounds reopen, loyalties fracture and the true cost of a woman's choice to leave her life is made clear.