My Beautiful Laundrette Synopsis - My Beautiful Laundrette is set in London and centres around the character of Omar, the son of immigrants from Pakistan. Omar is given the running of one his uncle Nasser's laundrettes. He meets an old friend from school Johnny, who is now a punk and a has been a member of The National Front. Omar employs Johnny at the launderette and starts a sexual relationship with him. But this is only the start of the complications as family pressures come to bear on the situation, Omar's father is ill, the possibility Omar may marry Tania - one of his cousins, Uncle Nasser's other business's seems to be infested with criminal activity, but how will this all fit in with Omar's ambition to "get on".