Cross a road, take a train or get on an aeroplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger - every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible, every bit as human as you are. So, meet an apparently disparate group of people - a comedian whose sole gag consists of committing suicide; an air traffic controller with a fear of flying and a pyschiatrist more in need of therapy than his patients - all of whom are connected to the tragic death of a stowaway on a flight into Birmingham in 1978. Twenty years later, they are powerless to interfere as the identity of the body emerges through stolen black box recordings, answer-machine tapes, surveillance footage and court transcripts. BLACK BOX is their desperate attempt to erase a life on tape.