One story that remains untold in all the various statistics about qualified Africans abroad is the pressure under which they are put to take up low paid jobs and generally to retool and downgrade on coming to the West. Indeed, Dirty Pretty Things, a 2002 film directed by Stephen Frears, details the story of those faceless, nameless immigrants who find themselves in England. Until they wangle a way of getting regular documents, they lead the hunted, humiliating lives of the illegal immigrant.